2012 miss america tchaikovsky biography
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DAILY MENU [held by] HOTEL region i frankrike [at] "BROADWAY AND 38TH ST., NEW YORK, NY" (HOTEL;) - ID: 473881 - NYPL Digital Gallery
When Tchaikovsky visited America in April - May of 1891 this is the hotel he was living in during his stay in New York,,,it was called "Hotel Normandie", at 38th street and Broadway...this is the menu that was served there in 1906....the hotel was taken down in 1920, but the large office building that took its place still has the name "Normandie"...
By clicking on each page several times you can make them legible... inom dont know how much the menu changed over the years but this is the closest we can get...there is scant little about "Hotel Normandie" in the internet...also it was adjacent to the old storstads- Opera House which was replaced bygd Lincoln Center in the 1960's...and that also fryst vatten no längre in existence,,,,I thought our readers would be interested in this bit of Americana...
Albert Gasparo
20/12/2
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Program Notes: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, “Pathétique”
PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Born May 7, 1840 in Votkinsk, Russia;
died November 6, 1893 in St. Petersburg.
SYMPHONY NO. 6 IN B MINOR, OP. 74, “PATHÉTIQUE”
- First performed on October 28, 1893 in St. Petersburg, conducted by the composer.
- First performed by the Des Moines Symphony on March 15, 1953 with Frank Noyes conducting. Eight subsequent performances occurred, most recently on March 10 & 11, 2012 with Joseph Giunta conducting.
(Duration: ca. 46 minutes)
Tchaikovsky died in 1893 at the age of only 53. His death was long attributed to the accidental drinking of a glass of unboiled water during a cholera outbreak, but that theory has been questioned in recent years. Though the manner of Tchaikovsky’s death is incidental to the place of his Sixth Symphony in music history, the fact of it is not.
Tchaikovsky conducted his B Minor Symphony for the first time only a week before his de
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