What song, originally composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was performed by Elizabeth de la Porte in South Africa?
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Elizabeth de la Porte Elizabeth de la Porte was born at Johannesburg in South Africa on 15 September 1941, the daughter of William James Tomlinson and his wife, the singer Betsy de la Porte. For her schooling she attended Kingsmead College in Johannesburg. For her piano studies she went to Adolph Hallis, and for Bach and for theory to Stefan Zondagh. She was in her mid-teens when she played the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto for a South African radio broadcast; however her strongest affinities always lay with J. S. Bach. When she won the University of South Africa's Overseas Scholarship it was for her piano performance of Bach's C minor Partita.
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Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky) The Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23, was composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky between November 1874 and February 1875. It was revised in the summer of 1879 and again in December 1888. The first version received heavy criticism from Nikolai Rubinstein, Tchaikovsky's desired pianist. Rubinstein later repudiated his previous accusations and became a fervent champion of the work. It is one of the most popular of Tchaikovsky's compositions and among the best known of all piano concertos.
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Iolanta Iolanta, Op. 69, (Russian: Иоланта ) is a lyric opera in one act by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. It was the last opera he composed. The libretto was written by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, and is based on the Danish play "Kong Renés Datter " ("King René's Daughter") by Henrik Hertz, a romanticised account of the life of Yolande de Bar. In the original Danish play, the spelling of the princess's name was "Iolanthe", later adopted for the otherwise unrelated Gilbert and Sullivan operetta of that name. The play was translated by Fyodor Miller and adapted by Vladimir Zotov. The opera received its premiere on 18 December 1892 in Saint Petersburg.
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Tchaikovsky (film) Tchaikovsky (Russian: Чайковский ) is a 1970 Soviet biopic film directed by Igor Talankin. It featured Innokenty Smoktunovsky in the role of the famous Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was nominated for the 1971 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film as well as the Academy Award for Original Song Score and Adaptation.
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Winter Dreams (ballet) Winter Dreams is a one-act ballet choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan to piano pieces by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky selected and arranged by Philip Gammon and traditional Russian music selected and arranged for guitar and mandolin ensemble by Thomas Hartman. With scenery and costumes designed by Peer Farmer and lighting designed by Clive Thomas, it was first presented by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, London, on 7 February 1991.
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Le cygne Le cygne, ] , or The Swan, is the 13th and penultimate movement of "The Carnival of the Animals" by Camille Saint-Saëns. Originally scored for solo cello accompanied by two pianos, it has been arranged and transcribed for many instruments but remains best known as a cello solo.
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Les Sylphides Les Sylphides (] ) is a short, non-narrative "ballet blanc". Its original choreography was by Michel Fokine, with music by Frédéric Chopin orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov. Glazunov had already set some of the music in 1892 as a purely orchestral suite, under the title Chopiniana, Op. 46. In that form it was introduced to the public in December 1893, conducted by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
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Pique Dame (Suppé) Pique Dame ("The Queen of Spades") is an operetta in two acts by Franz von Suppé to a German-language libretto very loosely based on Alexander Pushkin's short story "The Queen of Spades". The author of the libretto is unknown. "Pique Dame" was a revised version of Suppé's 1862 operetta "Die Kartenschlägerin" ("The Fortune Teller") and premiered in June 1864 at the Thalia Theater in Graz. The work is primarily known today for its overture which remains a popular concert piece.
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David Nowakowsky David Nowakowsky (1848-1921) was a Russian/Ukrainian Jewish composer, choirmaster and music teacher. Along with several contemporaries, Nowakowsky integrated traditional Jewish liturgical modes with western harmonies and styles, reinvigorating music for the synagogue. He was also noted as the music director and choirmaster of the Brody Synagogue in Odessa for 50 years. His work is not well known today although he is mentioned in Ira Gershwin's song, "Tchaikovsky".
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Islamey Islamey (Russian: Исламей , subtitled "Oriental Fantasy"), Op. 18, is a composition for piano by Russian composer Mily Balakirev, written in September 1869.
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Ada Cherry Kearton Ada Cherry Kearton (born Ada Forrest; 17 July 1877 – 19 January 1966) was a South African classical soprano who sang in concert and oratorio. She made her London debut in 1907 and retired from the stage shortly before her marriage in 1922 to the English wildlife photographer Cherry Kearton. Her 1956 autobiography "On Safari" recounts their travels together in Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
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Tchaikovsky (disambiguation) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) was a Russian composer.
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Alexander Nevsky (Prokofiev) Alexander Nevsky (Russian: Александр Невский ) is the score composed by Sergei Prokofiev for Sergei Eisenstein's 1938 film "Alexander Nevsky". The subject of the film is the 13th century incursion of the knights of the Livonian Order into the territory of the Novgorod Republic, their capture of the city of Pskov, the summoning of Prince Alexander Nevsky to the defense of Rus', and his subsequent victory over the crusaders in 1242. The majority of the score's song texts were written by the poet Vladimir Lugovskoy.
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Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (opera) Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Russian: "Леди Макбет Мценского уезда" , or "Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo uyezda") is an opera in four acts and nine scenes by Dmitri Shostakovich, his Opus 29. The libretto, jointly written by Alexander Preys and the composer, is based on the novel of the same name by Nikolai Leskov. (The opera is incorrectly named "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" on several commercial CD and DVD recordings.)
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Hand i hand "Hand i hand" is a song written by Magnus Uggla, and performed by him on the 1983 album "Välkommen till folkhemmet". The chorus are taken from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's violin concert. Song lyrics reflectt upon the hippie movement during the political left-wave in the Western World during the years around 1970.
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National anthem of Russia The State Anthem of the Russian Federation (Russian: Госуда́рственный гимн Росси́йской Федера́ции , "Gosudárstvennyj gimn Rossíjskoj Federácii"; ] ) is the name of the official national anthem of Russia. Its musical composition and some of its lyrics were adopted from the State Anthem of the Soviet Union, composed by Alexander Alexandrov, and lyricists Sergey Mikhalkov and Gabriel El-Registan. The Soviet anthem was used from 1944, replacing "The Internationale" with a more Sovietcentric and Russiacentric song. The anthem had no lyrics after 1956, due to the original lyrics having references to former leader Joseph Stalin. New lyrics were introduced in 1977 by Mikhalkov with lyrics placing less emphasis on World War II and more on the victory of communism.
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Come What May (2001 song) "Come What May" is a song composed by David Baerwald and Kevin Gilbert, originally intended for the film "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet". However, it was first heard publicly, and is best known as the romantic love theme from Baz Luhrmann's 2001 film "Moulin Rouge!", where it is sung by Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman in their respective roles as Christian and Satine.
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Evening Bell (song) Evening Bell (Вечерний звон) is a popular Russian song written in 1828 by Ivan Kozlov and Alexander Alyabyev. The lyrics are adapted from a Russian-themed verse by Thomas Moore.
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Tchaikovsky (song) "Tschaikovsky (and Other Russians)" is a patter song with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and music by Kurt Weill, first performed by American comedian Danny Kaye in the 1941 Broadway musical "Lady in the Dark". In his lyrics Gershwin used the alternate spelling "Tschaikowsky", from the German transliteration (used by German music publishers of the period) in place of the more widely accepted modern transliteration Tchaikovsky.
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Marche slave The Marche slave (] ) in B-flat minor, Op. 31 (published as Slavonic March) or Serbo-Russian March (, "Slovenski marsh / Srpsko-ruski marsh", Russian: Славя́нский марш / Сербско-русский марш , "Slavyanskiy marsh / Serbsko-russkiy marsh") or Slavic March is an orchestral tone poem by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky published in October 1876.
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The Magic Flute (musical) The Magic Flute (Impempe Yomlingo) is a musical theatre work adapted from the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart opera of the same title by Mark Dornford-May, with words and music by Mandisi Dyantyis, Mbali Kgosidintsi, Pauline Malefane and Nolufefe Mtshabe. Mozart's score is transposed for an orchestra of marimbas, drums and township percussion. The musical, set in contemporary South Africa, re-interprets the story from a South African perspective, telling of Prince Tamino's quest to rescue Pamina (both of them are Xhosa-speaking teenagers), daughter of the Queen of the Night, from the Priest of the Sun.
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The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Rimsky-Korsakov) The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Russian: Сказка о царе Салтане , "Skazka o Tsare Saltane") is an opera in four acts with a prologue (a total of seven scenes) by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto was written by Vladimir Belsky, and is based on the poem of the same name by Aleksandr Pushkin. The opera was composed in 1899–1900 to coincide with Pushkin's centenary, and was first performed in 1900 in Moscow, Russia.