"Now I will tell you what I've done for you... 50 thousand tears I've cried..."
How is it the more research I do, the further behind I feel? I mean, seriously, I need to cut the chord here with this paper and get it DONE.
So, I've been here at the FSU Library for a few hours and I have found SO much stuff. I found the original Rabinovich book that first makes the claim about the Puskin Romances. Since of course this is relevant to my thesis I have been able to explore it further... GOSH it's nice to actually have resources here... like, SCORES... GEEZ...
Anyway, since I have the complte works of DS at my disposal, I have been thumbing through several relavent scores. Found some AWESOME stuff in the original Puskin Romances vs. the ones DS orchestrated in 1960. (One year after Rabinovich's findings... hum, why? no, seriously, not sarcasm... why?).
I wish I were better at reading Russian. Took me like 10 minutes to go through the index of scores (it's all in Russian) to make sure I had the right scores in front of me. Thank GOD for cognates.
Is it wrong to correct Rabinovich? I mean, his writing is old school and confusing but I really think he made an actual mistake. Will post later.
Ahh, craziness resumes.
So, I've been here at the FSU Library for a few hours and I have found SO much stuff. I found the original Rabinovich book that first makes the claim about the Puskin Romances. Since of course this is relevant to my thesis I have been able to explore it further... GOSH it's nice to actually have resources here... like, SCORES... GEEZ...
Anyway, since I have the complte works of DS at my disposal, I have been thumbing through several relavent scores. Found some AWESOME stuff in the original Puskin Romances vs. the ones DS orchestrated in 1960. (One year after Rabinovich's findings... hum, why? no, seriously, not sarcasm... why?).
I wish I were better at reading Russian. Took me like 10 minutes to go through the index of scores (it's all in Russian) to make sure I had the right scores in front of me. Thank GOD for cognates.
Is it wrong to correct Rabinovich? I mean, his writing is old school and confusing but I really think he made an actual mistake. Will post later.
Ahh, craziness resumes.