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Ion Ivanovici (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Ивановић) (alternatively: Jovan Ivanović, Iosif Ivanovici, Josef Ivanovich) (1845 – 28 September [O.S. 16 September] 1902) was a Romanian military band conductor and composer of Banat Serbian origin, best remembered today for his waltz Waves of the Danube.
Ivanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Ивановић, pronounced [ǐʋanoʋitɕ]), [1] also transliterated as Ivanovich or Ivanovitch) is a South Slavic surname, a patronymic derived from Ivan. It is a Slavic equivalent of Johnson. It is a common surname in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia. It may refer to the following notable ...
Joni James included the song in her album Among My Souvenirs (1958). [12] Connie Francis included a bilingual version in English and Yiddish in her album Connie Francis Sings Jewish Favorites in 1960. Mitch Miller and his Gang also performed and recorded the song and it was included in the album Happy Times! - Sing Along with Mitch [13] (1961).
In English texts, his given name is most usually rendered as Feodor or Fyodor, and his surname is most usually seen as Chaliapin. However, in the Russian pronunciation the initial consonant Ш is pronounced like sh in shop , not as ch in chop , and in reference books the surname is sometimes given a strict romanization as Shalyapin .
Boris Ivanovich Fomin was born in Saint Petersburg.His father Ivan Yakovlevich (1869–1935) was a high-ranking army official serving at the State Military control office, who counted Mikhail Lomonosov among his distant relatives.
Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky (Russian: Ро́берт Ива́нович Рожде́ственский; 20 June 1932 – 19 August 1994) was a Soviet-Russian poet and songwriter who broke with socialist realism in the 1950s–1960s during the Khrushchev Thaw and, along with such poets as Andrei Voznesensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and Bella Akhmadulina, pioneered a newer, fresher, and freer ...
Lobachevsky" is a humorous song by Tom Lehrer, referring to the mathematician Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky. [1] According to Lehrer, the song is "not intended as a slur on [Lobachevsky's] character" and the name was chosen "solely for prosodic reasons". [2] [3] In the introduction, Lehrer describes the song as an adaptation of a routine that ...
The theme song of the program was "Take the A Train". At its height, the Voice of America Jazz Hour was listened to by up to 30 million people. Although the Voice of America was prohibited from broadcasting in the United States by the Smith-Mundt Act , the shortwave signal was receivable in the US and had a sizable USA audience.