Mark Knezevic [[log in to unmask]] wrote:

>Anyway ... Rimsky-Korsakov wrote a work "Variations on Serbian Themes"
>for Orchestra, a work which will be performed later in the year by the
>West Australian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Verbitsky.  I'm
>looking forward to that at least.  It seems that Tchaikovsky was not the
>only Russian inclined to dedicate (to be inspired by) a work to Serbia.

I have the "Variations on Serbian Themes" on CD with Verbitsky, though with
Slowakische Philarmonie - seems to be a personla hit of his. But thwe piece
is fresh and nice.

>Haydn apparently was interested in the folk music that existed in the
>Balkans when he was alive and I think some of the themes found their
>way into his works ...  I'm not sure about this but I remember hearing
>something along the lines of that anyway.

EX: Hayden put in a slavonic theme in the first movemetn of his 60th
symphony - where it gets a comic effect.

James Zehm
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