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Yekaterina Vasilyevna Geltzer (November 2, 1876 - December 12, 1962) was a prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet who danced in the theatre from 1898 to 1935. She worked with Marius Petipa, Sergei Diaghilev, and Reinhold Glière. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, she helped to preserve the art of ballet in Russia. She was the first ballet dancer to receive the title of "People's Artist of Russia" (1925). Her most famous post-revolutionary role was a Chinese dancer in the premiere of Gliere's Red Poppy. This production was st

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Roger Voisin was also very active as an editor for International Music Company, providing over 45 editions for the company. VOISIN EDITIONS: Giuseppe Aldrovandini (1671-1707), Sonata No. 1 for Two Trumpets (International Music Company) Giuseppe Aldrovandini (1665-1707), Sonata No. 2 for Two Trumpets (International Music Company) Giuseppe Aldrovandini (1665-1707), Sonata No. 3 for Two Trumpets (International Music Company) Alexander Arutiunian (b. 1920), Concerto for Trump ...

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Arguably one of the most influential trumpet performers and teachers of the twentieth century, Voisin joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as assistant principal trumpet in 1935 at age seventeen, and became principal trumpet in 1952. He performed in the Boston Symphony for 38 years, until 1973. During this period, he was also principal trumpet with the Boston Pops Orchestra. Voisin moved to the United States as a child when his father, René Voisin, was brought to the Boston Symphony as fourth trumpet by Sergei Koussevitzky in 1928. H ...

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Roger Voisin was with the Boston Symphony at the inception of the Tanglewood Music Center in 1940, and continues to serve on the faculty there, coaching the orchestral winds and teaching solfège to the conducting class. He became chair of the New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) brass and percussion department in 1950 and was the primary trumpet teacher at NEC for nearly 30 years. In 1975 he became a full professor at Boston University, teaching trumpet and chairing the wind, percussion and harp department until his retirement in 1999. I ...

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List of Ukrainians - Actors. Elina Bystritskaya George Dzundza Lyudmila Gurchenko Milla Jovovich Roman Kartsev Mila Kunis Vasily Lanovoy Ana Layevska Paul Muni Ivan Mykolaychuk Alla Nazimova Zhanna Prokhorenko Ada Rohovtseva Yakov Smirnoff John Spencer B ...

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List of Ukrainians - Ukrainian politicians. Mykola Azarov, minister of finance, vice premier Stepan Bandera, nationalist leader Taras Chornovil Vyacheslav Chornovil Mykhaylo Hrushevsky, president of Ukrainian People's Republic Leonid Kravchuk, president Leonid Kuchma, president Anastassia Lisowska Nestor Makhno Kirill S. Moskalenko Symon Petliura Borys Tarasyuk, foreign mnister Yuliya Tymoshenko, prim ...

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List of Ukrainians - Biologists/Physicians. Nikolai Amosov Oleksandr Bohomolets Theodosius Dobzhansky Katherine Esau Volodymyr Filatov Waldemar Haffkine Dimitri Ivanovski Trofim Lysenko Ilya Mechnikov, microbilogist, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1908) Jaroslaw Nowicky Svitlana P. Sydorenko Vladimir Vernadsky, mineralog ...

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