November 6, 2019

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We heard music this morning by Alexander Borodin:  his ‘Nocturne’ whose main theme was famously used in the 1950s musical “Kismet”.  ‘Nocturne’ is the third movement of a chamber work that Borodin wrote on the 20th anniversary of his proposal to his wife, Ekaterina.  What is the piece from which ‘Nocturne’ comes?