Slavic (Russian and Ukrainian) Music for the Final Exam (Russian 250)
Clip.1 - Modest Musorgskii. Great Gates of Kyiv (Picture from an Exhibition 10. 1874).
Clip.2 - Nikolai Rimskii-Korsakov. "Flight of a Bumble Bee" (an interlude from
opera Tale of Tsar Saltan (1899-1900)).
Clip.3 (will not be on the final exam in Fall 2024) - Igor Stravinskii. ballet Petrushka (1911) original ballet company: Ballets Russes.
Clip.4 - Mykola Leontovich. Shchedrik (1916)
Shchedrik means Bountiful in Ukrainian. A Ukrainian song about coming of Spring inspired by a folk tune. The coming New Year which in Ukraine before the introduction of Christianity was originally celebrated in April. Hence, the coming of spring and the coming of the New Year coincide.
When the song became popular in the US, a new lyrics (1936) made it a Xmas song "Carol of the Bells"
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