Alexander Borodin

Essentially, we combine two simpler carbonyl compounds into a bigger molecule.

This reaction was discovered independently by the French chemist Charles Adolph Wurtz and the Russian chemist and composer Alexander Borodin in the late 1800s.

The ald- part of the name comes from the fact that the reaction involved two aldehydes before we figured out ketones could be involved too, and the -ol part comes from the alcohol because the product is a beta hydroxy carbonyl compound.

As always, we wanna understand the mechanisms at work, not just memorize reactions.

So it was my grandmother who introduced me to opera.

So she watched Borodin's Prince Igor with me.

And I liked it so much, I asked her to make a costume.

I think it was one of the ladies in Imbil.

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Alexander Borodin was one of the Russian Five, a mighty handful of composers seeking to make a name for Russian music by implementing national sounds and folklore into their pieces.

Borodin's opera Prince Igor was one of these works, being based on an early Russian epic.

Although the opera is seldom performed, the Polovitzian dances from Act II have become a classic of the orchestral repertoire.

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Berlioz, the composer.

Borodin, he was a doctor.

And probably one of the most famous people in my world was Theodore Billrott, who was the first person to perform gastrectomy safely.

and he was a friend of Brahms, and he played in a string quartet with Brahms.

It's taking...

Is it Borodin? Don't get mad at me, people.

But, like, a, a classical composer, taking those themes and music, adding lyrics to it, adding this interesting story, uh, that has to do with the Middle East, which is probably why we don't see this show done very much, because it was Richard Kiley back in the day.

You know, like, we can- you're not gonna do that.

Cecil had a number one hit across Europe in 1998. with Prince Igor, a duet with an American rapper, Warren G, and the concept album, The Rhapsody Overture, which combined American rappers with European opera singers.

She sang an aria from Alexander Borodin's opera, Prince Igor, during the chorus while Warren G rapped.

When the song was recorded, She had just half an hour to learn the Russian lyrics.

She got help from a Russian taxi driver in New York City, whose name, coincidentally, was Igor.

and I loved classical.

So we had Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Borodin, all like that.

And Karen didn't care much for that.

Other than that, she listened to whatever was the current single on the radio that we pestered our parents for, or Les Paul and Barry Ford, or any of them.

During Liszt's years in Weimar, much music was brought to his notice, music by new composers and from different countries.

Music by Russian composers was then hardly known outside Russia until Berlioz produced some works by Glinka and Liszt played compositions by Borodin and Balakirev.

Glinka, eighteen oh three to eighteen fifty-seven, was the earliest Russian composer of this time whose work did not imitate the Italian opera prevalent at the Russian court.

His aim was to produce music that was really Russian.

Among his friends were several younger men who carried on his aims.

The earliest of them is Balakirev.

Balakirev, eighteen thirty-seven to nineteen ten, was a cultivated musician who exercised a great influence on his contemporaries, Borodin, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov.

Living in St. Petersburg, he was the center of a group of musicians who each, in his own way, wished to produce national music and who succeeded so well that their works had an originality and power which has made many of them known and liked all over Europe.