MOUSSORGSKY—Oskar von Riesemann, translated by Paul England—Knopf ($5). Great Russian writers are Gogol, Tolstoy, Turgeniev, Dostoievsky—products all of the first days when Russia dared declare ...

Modeste Petrovich Moussorgsky’s happiest moment came on March 16, 1881, when, in a St. Petersburg hospital, surrounded by strangers, Fate permitted him to die. For 46 years he had been beaten by life.

(Piano version by Vladimir Ashkenazy, orchestral version by Zubin Mehta and Los Angeles Philharmonic; London CS6559). Pictures both ways as Moussorgsky wrote it for piano, and as Ravel orchestrated it ...

After a full month of rehearsals and ballyhoo, the Band will unveil its Dartmouth Concert at 8:15 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theatre. "The program, which is divided into two sections, is an interesting, ...