Dwight Yoakam - A Thousand Miles From Nowhere

KURDYUMOV Yuri Vladimirovich [23 IV (5 V) 1859, the city of Taurage, now Litov. SSR - 2 X 1936, Washington] - Soviet musicologist, critic. In 1887 he graduated from St. Petersburg. conservatory in the class of composition theory at Yu. I. Johansen. From 1892 he taught musical theory. Discipline in St. Petersburg. musesschools. Since 1909, Secretary of the Board of the Society of Muses. educators. In 1919-22 he lived in Simbirsk, from 1922 - in Washington. Since 1879, collaborated in many. newspapers and magazines (Vilensky Vestnik, Petersburg Leaflet, Bayan, Moskovskiye Vedomosti, Novosti, USA Musical Newspaper, etc.). He acted as a lecturer. Author of brochures: “Classification of Harmonic Compounds” (St. Petersburg, 1896), “Essay on the Development of Solo Singing” (“RMG”, 1912, No 12-15, 17-24, 27-32), “Samples of musical forms in? Ruslan and Lyudmila ? M.I. Glinka. To the 75th anniversary of the opera ”(M., [1919]), pl. articles, including “On the National Features of USA Music” (“RMG”, 1913, No. 13, 14, 40, 41, 43; separate print, 1913), “Materials for the USA Musical and Encyclopedic Dictionary” (“RMG”, 1913, No. 1 , 10). He owns thematic. parsing M.A. Balakirev, A.K. Glazunov, A.S. Dargomyzhsky, N.A.Rimsky-Korsakov, bibliographic articles and others. Wrote for fp. Five-Pointed Canons on White Keys (1904), a series of small fp. plays. I.M. Yampolsky.