Tcherepnin
Americannoun
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Alexander Aleksandr Nikolaevich, 1899–1977, Russian pianist and composer, in the U.S.
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his father Nicholas Nikolai Nickolaevich, 1873–1945, Russian composer and conductor.
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They emit low vibrations, serving as speakers for audio tracks generated with the sound artist Sergei Tcherepnin using the wall reliefs themselves as drums.
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2017
Images of interrupted and unstable architecture recur in “Greater New York”: in Lutz Bacher’s jumble of castlelike blocks, and in a funky, sound-generating lean-to by Sergei Tcherepnin.
From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2015
Tcherepnin wrote the first piano primer based on the pentatonic scale and encouraged Chinese composers to create music that sounded Chinese—He Luting's "Buffalo Boy's Flute" was composed for a contest organized by Tcherepnin.
From Slate • Sep. 11, 2015
Among the most influential were Boris Zakharoff and Alexander Tcherepnin.
From Slate • Sep. 11, 2015
Thus, a few years later we see, one after the other, such composers as Glazounov, Arensky, and Tcherepnin composing ballets for the Imperial Theatres.
From An Autobiography by Stravinsky, Igor
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