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Tchaikovsky (and other Russians)

from Say it with Song by Jacqueline Novikov

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Music by Kurt Weill
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin

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Without the least excuse
Or the slightest provocation,
May I fondly introduce,
For your mental delectation,
The names that always give me brain concussion,
The names of those composers known as Russian.
There's Malichevsky, Rubinstein, Arensky, and Tschaikowsky,
Sapelnikoff, Dimitrieff, Tcherepnin, Kryianowsky,
Godovsky, Arteiboucheff, Moniuszko, Akimenko,
Solovieff, Prokofieff, Tiomkin, Korestchenko.
There's Glinka, Winkler, Bortniansky, Rebikoff, Ilyinsky,
There's Medtner, Balakireff, Zolotareff, and Kvoschinsky.
And Sokoloff and Kopiloff, Dukelsky, and Klenovsky,
And Shostakovitch, Borodin, Glière, and Novikovski.
There's Liadoff and Karganoff, Markievitch, Pantchenko
And Dargomizski, Sherbatcheff, Scriabin, Vassilenko,
Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Mussorgsky, and Gretchaninoff
And Glazounoff and Caesar-Cui, Kalinikoff, Rachmaninoff,
Stravinsky and Gretchnaninoff,
Rumshinsky and Rachmaninoff,
I really have to stop, the subject has been dwelt upon enough!
I really have to stop because you all have undergone enough!

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from Say it with Song, released July 15, 2022

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Jacqueline Novikov Boston, Massachusetts

Soprano Jacqueline Novikov, founder of Forma Music, is dedicated to entertaining and educating audiences through classical vocal music. She uses music's powerful language to express life's humorous, serious, mundane and sacred truths. Jacqueline holds a B.M. from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY and a M.M. from Manhattan School of Music in New York City. ... more

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