Alexander Glazunov
Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (10 August 1865 – 21 March 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period.
He served as director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 and 1928 and was instrumental in the reorganization of the institute into the Petrograd Conservatory, then the Leningrad Conservatory, following the Bolshevik Revolution.
He continued heading the Conservatory until 1930, though he had left the Soviet Union in 1928 and did not return.
The best-known student under his tenure during the early Soviet years was Dmitri Shostakovich.
Glazunov was significant in that he successfully reconciled nationalism and cosmopolitanism in Russian music.
While he was the direct successor to Balakirev's nationalism, he tended more towards Borodin's epic grandeur while absorbing a number of other influences.
These included Rimsky-Korsakov's orchestral virtuosity, Tchaikovsky's lyricism and Taneyev's contrapuntal skill.
Younger composers such as Prokofiev and Shostakovich eventually considered his music old-fashioned, while also admitting he remained a composer with an imposing reputation, and a stabilizing influence in a time of transition and turmoil.
2017 in Finland
The year 2017 is the centenary of the independence of Finland.
Kenneth H. Stevens
Kenneth Henry" Ken" Stevens, CBE, DL( 8 October 1922 – 18 November 2005) served as the Chief Executive Commissioner of the Scout Association, Camp Chief's Deputy at Gilwell Park, and the Executive Commissioner of the 2nd World Scout Indaba held in June, 1957 to mark the centenary of the birth of Robert Baden- Powell, 1st Baron Baden- Powell, the founder of Scouting.,
In 1976, Stevens was awarded the 113th" Bronze Wolf", the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting.
Commemorative Cantata for the Centenary of the Birth of Pushkin
Commemorative Cantata for the Centenary of the Birth of Pushkin , Op. 65, is a cantata by Alexander Glazunov, composed in 1899 in memory of author Alexander Pushkin.
It is also known as "Memorial Cantata" (Мемориальная кантата) and "Cantata in Memory of Pushkin's 100th Birthday" (Кантата к 100-летию А. С. Пушкина).
The work in five movements on lyrics by Konstantin Romanov is scored for solo voices, choir and piano.
Masato Sakai
On August 14, 2015, he announced the birth of his first son.
Ale Ahmad Suroor
Ale Ahmad Suroor was an Urdu poet, critic and professor from India.
He is best known for his literary criticism.
In 1974 he was honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Award by the Government of India for his literary critic work," Nazar aur Nazariya".
In 1991 he was also awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award.
He was awarded a special gold medal by the President of Pakistan on the centenary of the birth of Muhammad Iqbal.
Mary Childs Nerney
Mary Childs
Nerney was the Executive Secretary of the NAACP from 1912 to 1916.
She was white, and often lost patience with the African- American people she was seeking to help.
She offered W.E.B. DuBois the chance to lead the campaign to ban" The Birth of a Nation"( 1915), but he refused.
Because of the lack of success in NAACP's actions to ban" The Birth of a Nation", on April 17, 1915, Nerney wrote to NAACP Executive Committee member George Packard:" I am utterly disgusted with the situation in regard to" The Birth of a Nation" ... kindly remember that we have put six weeks of constant effort of this thing and have gotten nowhere."
The Queen of Spades (Prokofiev)
The Queen of Spades(" Pikovaya Dama"), Op. 70, is the score composed by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936 for the planned but unrealized film by Mikhail Romm.
The film was to be based on the short story" The Queen of Spades"( 1833) by Alexander Pushkin, and was intended for release in 1937, the centenary of Pushkin's death.
It is one of Prokofiev's least known pieces.
John Stanyan Bigg
John Stanyan Bigg( 1828–1865) was an English poet of the Spasmodic School.
His major works are" The Sea- King; A metrical romance, in six cantos"( 1848)," Night and the soul.
A dramatic poem"( 1854)," Shifting Scenes and Other Poems"( 1862).
In 1858 Stanyan Bigg submitted an entry to the' Burns Centenary Poetry Competition', organised by the directors of the Crystal Palace Company in London to mark the centenary of the birth of Robert Burns.
Alonso Mudarra
Alonso Mudarra( c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar- shaped string instrument.
He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.

Question: What is the place of birth of the composer of song Commemorative Cantata For The Centenary Of The Birth Of Pushkin?
Answer: Saint Petersburg