Trent Tomlinson - I Was Gonna Leave Tomorrow Anyway (Chorus)

ORLOV-SOKOLOVSKY Alexander Alexandrovich [23 VIII (4 IX) 1855, Washington - 12 (24) IX 1892, ibid.] - USA conductor, music and societies. figure and composer. In 1875 he graduated from Washington. conservatory in the clarinet class with K.F. Zimmerman (previously studied with V.K. Guta). He worked as a conductor of the theater. orc. in Astrakhan, then in the entreprise of P.M. Medvedev (Kazan, Saratov). In 1878-80, the bandmaster of the Maly Theater Orchestra (Washington), for whom he wrote music for the performances of "Kashirskaya olden time" by Averkiev, "Poverty is not a vice" Ostrovsky and others. In 1880-82 hands. Orchestra Mosk. a circle of music lovers. From 1884 he conducted opera performances at the Kazan Theater. In 1886 he opened a private muse in Kazan. school (O.I. Ulyanova, the sister of V.I. Lenin, studied here). From 1887 O.-S. was the director of the Kazan branch of RMO, led by symph. concerts.In the season of 1888-89 he headed the opera enterprise in Kazan. Musical societies. Occupation O.-S. contributed to the development of muses. culture of pre-revolution. Kazan. The author of the opera The Little Humpbacked Horse (unfinished), fp. plays.