An off-list respose cited a Soviet-era Russian source for an 1888 publication by a publisher called Beliayev. So the notion that Wright & Forrest began with Borodin's music "almost the day it came out of copyright" would seem to depend on a stretch of the meaning of the word "almost".
Tim Phillips
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Received on Sun Jun 11 2000 - 18:47:07 GMT
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