{"id":6932,"date":"2023-05-02T19:11:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T09:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6932"},"modified":"2023-05-02T19:11:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T09:11:27","slug":"borodin-transposing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6932","title":{"rendered":"Borodin transposing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Excerpts from Borodin&#8217;s <em>Prince Igor<\/em> were to be performed by the Free College of Music.  Rimsky Korsakov recalled: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>At this epoch, <em>Prince Igor<\/em> advanced slowly, but advanced nevertheless.  How many prayers I addressed to dear Borodine that he might finally decide to orchestrate a few numbers for the concert!  His numerous occupations at the Medical School and his advanced classes of women always greatly absorbed him.  I have already described his home.  His infinite bounty and absence of all egoism made of this interior an environment little propitious to composition.  I renewed my visits, asking him always what he had done.  It was usually one or two pages of the score or nothing at all.  I asked him:<br><br>&#8220;Alexandre Porfirievitch, have you written something?&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;Yes, I&#8217;ve written.&#8221;  <br><br>True, he had written many letters!  <br><br>&#8220;Alexandre Porfirievitch, have you transposed this number?&#8221;  <br><br>&#8220;I have transposed,&#8221; he replied with a serious air.  <br><br>&#8220;At last, God be praised.&#8221;  <br><br>&#8220;I transposed it from the piano to the table,&#8221; he added sedately.  <\/p>\n<cite>L. Llewellyn, &#8220;Eccentric Home Life of Borodine&#8221;, <em>Musical America<\/em>, 29 April 1911, p. 16.  <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpts from Borodin&#8217;s Prince Igor were to be performed by the Free College of Music. Rimsky Korsakov recalled: At this epoch, Prince Igor advanced slowly, but advanced nevertheless. How many prayers I addressed to dear Borodine that he might finally decide to orchestrate a few numbers for the concert! His numerous occupations at the Medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[550],"tags":[1409,1611],"class_list":["post-6932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composers","tag-borodin","tag-rimsky-korskaov"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6933,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932\/revisions\/6933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}