Like many of Russia's great composers, Alexander Borodin was renown in other fields beyond music. Although composer Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) is best known for writing one of the best Russian ...

The Longview Symphony Orchestra is kicking off its 55th season with a classical concert Saturday at LeTourneau University’s Belcher Center. “It is beautiful classical music through our professional ...

Created at the same time as his opera “Prince Igor,” from which he contributed some of the opera’s unused heroic musical ideas, Alexander Borodin’s 2nd Symphony was noted by a music critic at the time ...

A music critic at the time commented that Russian composer Alexander Borodin’s 2nd Symphony had “the flavor of an ancient Russian epic.” That's fitting, as the composer included unused musical ideas ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The MSU Symphony Orchestra will bring a Russian twist to this year's fall concert. "[We] have a ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Arkansas Symphony) -- The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Philip Mann, Music Director and Conductor, presents the first concert of the Stella Boyle Smith Masterworks Series: Grieg's ...

Moscow Radio Orchestra; Nikolai Golovanov, conductor; Mstislav Rostropovich, cello; Leningrad Philharmonic; Kurt Sanderling, conductor (Multisonic). The Borodin is the main attraction on this ...

The man who wrote the opera 'Prince Igor' was a renowned scientist and chemist, besides being a great composer. Although composer Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) is best known for writing one of the ...

A true celebration, ushering in the New Year with one of the finest orchestras and greatest conductors in the world. The 2007 Gala from Berlin features the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle in ...

In the mid 1800s Russian composer Mily Balakirev gathered around him four young composers with limited musical education - Alexander Borodin, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; ...