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  • Now, imagine seeing this full-screen in a darkened movie theater amid the various movie trailers ... to the accompaniment of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee.

    Today's Video - External Tank Falling to Earth in HD - NASA Watch 2009

  • Violin racing interlude: Oliver Lewis beats the world record for fastest performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee".

    Wonkbook: Foreclosure mess gets criminal; liberal Dems rally behind Social Security; Arne Duncan's international school reform Ezra Klein 2010

  • His contemporary and friend Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov apparently did, and both composers drew up detailed color scales, mapping individual keys to specific colors.

    Orchestrating an Extrasensory Sound in Living Color Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2010

  • On the ice that day, Lysacek says Wang helped him find the emotion in the music, especially when he performed his long program to Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, a story of a king who kills his favorite wife after finding her in the arms of a slave.

    Lysacek pumps up artistry with new costumes, music, verve 2010

  • Ms. Kaminsky discovered them thanks to a librarian at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory.

    The Concerts Are Free. The Composers Weren't 2010

  • I'll be charitable on the quaint Victorian transliteration of "Rimsky-Korsakov", but "Musorgsky"?

    Fraud at Polls Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • She played Cara, the Moroccan cabaret dancer who inspires "Nicky" Rimsky-Korsakov to compositional stardom, in the so-ridiculous-it's-marvelous Hollywood concoction Song of Scheherazade, a 1947 contribution to the brief but entertainingly wrong wave of composer biopics that swept through studios after the invention of long-playing records, apparently.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • I do Rimsky-Korsakov in the mornings ... the dogs get fired up and life is full of vim.

    Glorious garlic and four other things | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007

  • She played Cara, the Moroccan cabaret dancer who inspires "Nicky" Rimsky-Korsakov to compositional stardom, in the so-ridiculous-it's-marvelous Hollywood concoction Song of Scheherazade, a 1947 contribution to the brief but entertainingly wrong wave of composer biopics that swept through studios after the invention of long-playing records, apparently.

    "First you're another sloe-eyed vamp..." Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • I'll be charitable on the quaint Victorian transliteration of "Rimsky-Korsakov", but "Musorgsky"?

    Archive 2007-03-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

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