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Nicolas Slonimsky, the Glossary

Nicolas Slonimsky (– December 25, 1995), born Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy (Никола́й Леони́дович Слoнимский), was a Russian-born American musicologist, conductor, pianist, and composer.^[1]

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Boston Evening Transcript people
Russian musicologists

Albert Coates (musician)

Albert Coates (* 11 jul./23 April 1881greg. – 11 December 1953) was an English conductor and composer.

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Alejandro García Caturla

Alejandro García Caturla (7 March 1906 – 12 November 1940) was a Cuban composer of art music and creolized Cuban themes.

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Allan Holdsworth

Allan Holdsworth (6 August 1946 – 15 April 2017) was a British jazz fusion and progressive rock guitarist, violinist and composer.

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Amadeo Roldán

Amadeo Roldán y Gardes (Paris, 12 June 1900 – Havana, 7 March 1939) was a Cuban composer and violinist.

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In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.

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Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians is a major reference work in the field of music, originally compiled by Theodore Baker, PhD, and published in 1900 by G. Schirmer, Inc. The ninth edition, the most recent edition, was published in 2001.

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Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Boston Conservatory at Berklee (formerly The Boston Conservatory) is a private performing arts conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Boston Evening Transcript

The Boston Evening Transcript was a daily afternoon newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts, published for over a century from July 24, 1830, to April 30, 1941.

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Boston Symphony Orchestra

The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra based in Boston.

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Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Charles Amirkhanian

Charles Benjamin Amirkhanian (born January 19, 1945; Fresno, California) is an American composer.

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Charles Ives

Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874May 19, 1954) was an American actuary, businessman, and modernist composer.

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Constantinople

Constantinople (see other names) became the capital of the Roman Empire during the reign of Constantine the Great in 330.

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Curtis Institute of Music

The Curtis Institute of Music is a private conservatory in Philadelphia.

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Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer. Nicolas Slonimsky and Dmitri Shostakovich are 20th-century Russian male musicians, 20th-century classical pianists and Russian male classical composers.

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Dorothy Adlow

Dorothy Adlow (1901-1964) was a nationally known art critic and lecturer from Boston.

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Eastman School of Music

The Eastman School of Music is the music school of the University of Rochester, a private research university in Rochester, New York, United States.

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Edgard Varèse

Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (also spelled Edgar; December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was a French composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States.

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Eugene Aynsley Goossens

Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens (26 May 189313 June 1962) was an English conductor and composer.

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader.

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George Antheil

George Johann Carl Antheil (July 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author, and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the sounds – musical, industrial, and mechanical – of the early 20th century. Nicolas Slonimsky and George Antheil are 20th-century classical pianists and American male classical pianists.

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Greek language

Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Groomsman

A groomsman or usher is one of the male attendants to the groom in a wedding ceremony.

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Hayyim Selig Slonimski

Ḥayyim Selig ben Ya'akov Slonimski (March 31, 1810 – May 15, 1904), also known by his acronym ḤaZaS, was a Hebrew publisher, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, science writer, and rabbi.

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Henry Cowell

Henry Dixon Cowell (March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, writer, pianist, publisher, teacher Marchioni, Tonimarie (2012). Nicolas Slonimsky and Henry Cowell are 20th-century American musicologists, 20th-century classical pianists and American male classical pianists.

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Hollywood Bowl

The Hollywood Bowl is an amphitheatre in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (– 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945). Nicolas Slonimsky and Igor Stravinsky are 20th-century classical pianists, American male classical pianists and Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States.

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Intelligentsia

The intelligentsia is a status class composed of the university-educated people of a society who engage in the complex mental labours by which they critique, shape, and lead in the politics, policies, and culture of their society; as such, the intelligentsia consists of scholars, academics, teachers, journalists, and literary writers.

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Ionisation (Varèse)

Ionisation (1929–1931) is a musical composition by Edgard Varèse written for thirteen percussionists.

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Isabelle Vengerova

Isabelle Vengerova (Ізабэла Венгерава; 7 February 1956) was a Russian, later American, pianist and music teacher. Nicolas Slonimsky and Isabelle Vengerova are Jewish classical pianists.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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John Coltrane

John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer.

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Johnny Carson

John William Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American television personality, comedian, writer and producer best known as the host of NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992).

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KPFA

KPFA (94.1 FM) is a public, listener-funded talk radio and music radio station located in Berkeley, California, broadcasting to the San Francisco Bay Area.

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KWKW

KWKW (1330 AM) is a commercial Spanish language radio station licensed to serve Los Angeles, California, featuring a sports format known as "Tu Liga Radio 1330".

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Kyiv

Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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Master of Music

The Master of Music (MM or MMus) is, as an academic title, the first graduate degree in music awarded by universities and conservatories.

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Melodic pattern

In music and jazz improvisation, a melodic pattern (or motive) is a cell or germ serving as the basis for repetitive pattern.

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Mikhail Slonimsky

Mikhail Leonidovich Slonimsky (Михаи́л Леони́дович Слони́мский; – 8 October 1972) was a Soviet writer, member of the Serapion Brothers group. Nicolas Slonimsky and Mikhail Slonimsky are Russian Jews.

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Moon Zappa

Moon Unit Zappa (born September 28, 1967) is an American actress, singer, and author.

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Other Minds (organization)

Other Minds is an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco.

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Paul Grabowsky

Paul Atherstone Grabowsky, born 27 September 1958, is an Australian pianist and composer, founder of the Australian Art Orchestra.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer.

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Richard Kostelanetz

Richard Cory Kostelanetz (born May 14, 1940) is an American artist, author, and critic.

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Robert Commanday

Robert Paul Commanday (June 18, 1922 – September 3, 2015) was an American music critic who specialized in classical music.

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Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Monroe County.

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Russian Orthodox Church

The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; Russkaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', abbreviated as РПЦ), alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate (Moskovskiy patriarkhat), is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian church.

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Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica (Saint Monica; Spanish: Santa Mónica) is a city in Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast.

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Scale (music)

In music theory, a scale is "any consecutive series of notes that form a progression between one note and its octave", typically by order of pitch or fundamental frequency.

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Serge Koussevitzky

Serge Koussevitzky (born Sergey Aleksandrovich Kusevitsky;Koussevitzky's original Russian forename is usually transliterated into English as either "Sergei" or "Sergey"; however, he himself adopted the French spelling "Serge", using it in his signature. (See. Retrieved 5 November 2009.) His surname can be transliterated variously as "Koussevitzky", "Koussevitsky", "Kussevitzky", "Kusevitsky", or, into Polish, as "Kusewicki"; however, he himself chose to use "Koussevitzky". Nicolas Slonimsky and Serge Koussevitzky are Russian Jews.

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Sergei Slonimsky

Sergei Mikhailovich Slonimsky (Серге́й Миха́йлович Слони́мский; 12 August 1932 – 9 February 2020) was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist and musicologist. Nicolas Slonimsky and Sergei Slonimsky are 20th-century Russian male musicians, Russian Jews and Russian male classical composers.

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Steve Rochinski

Stephen James Rochinski (born January 20, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist, composer, arranger, recording artist, author, and educator(Professor Emeritus) He has worked and performed with Tal Farlow, Attila Zoller, Jimmy Raney, Pete Candoli, Conte Candoli, Tim Hagans, Joe Lovano, Greg Hopkins, Gary Foster, Pat Harbison, Jeff Sherman, Hal Melia, Chip Stephens, Hank Marr, Brad Goode, Joe Hunt, Scott Lee, Walt Weiskopf, Wade Beach, Amy Shook, Jeff Antoniuk, Tony Martucci, Chuck Redd, Richard Evans, Bob Freedman, entertainer and singer Anthony Tillman, as well as numerous studio, concert, club date, and international clinic appearances.

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The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor (CSM), commonly known as The Monitor, is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles both in electronic format and a weekly print edition.

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The Etude

The Etude was an American print magazine dedicated to music founded by Theodore Presser (1848–1925) at Lynchburg, Virginia, and first published in October 1883.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Johnny Carson on NBC, the third iteration of the ''Tonight Show'' franchise.

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The Town Hall (New York City)

The Town Hall (also Town Hall) is a performance space at 123 West 43rd Street, between Broadway and Sixth Avenue near Times Square, in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Three Places in New England

The Three Places in New England (Orchestral Set No. 1) is a composition for orchestra in three movements by American composer Charles Ives.

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University of Kansas

The University of Kansas (KU) is a public and research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States.

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Vladimir Rosing

Vladimir Sergeyevich Rosing (Владимир Серге́евич Розинг) (November 24, 1963), also known as Val Rosing, was a Russian-born operatic tenor and stage director who spent most of his professional career in the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Vulture (website)

Vulture is an American entertainment news website.

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WNET

WNET (channel 13), branded on-air as "Thirteen" (stylized as "THIRTEEN"), is a primary PBS member television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey, United States, serving the New York City area.

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Yulia Slonimskaya Sazonova

Yulia Slonimskaya Sazonova (Юлия Леонидовна Слонимская Сазонова, 19 September 1884 – 18 November 1957) was a Russian-born writer, theater critic and historian, actress, and puppeteer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Slonimsky

Also known as Lexicon of Musical Invective, Music since 1900, Nicholas Slonimsky, Nikolai Slonimsky, Slonimsky, Nicholas, Slonimsky, Nicolas, The Lexicon of Musical Invective, Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns.

, Saint Petersburg, Santa Monica, California, Scale (music), Serge Koussevitzky, Sergei Slonimsky, Steve Rochinski, The Christian Science Monitor, The Etude, The New York Times, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Town Hall (New York City), Three Places in New England, University of Kansas, Vladimir Rosing, Vulture (website), WNET, Yulia Slonimskaya Sazonova.

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Boston Evening Transcript people

Russian musicologists

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