Boris Godunov (opera) ("Flow, flow, bitter tears!") of the arrival of the enemy and of woe to Russia. Russian opera of the early 1870s was dominated by Western European works—mainly Italian. The domestic product was regarded with skepticism and sometimes hostility. The playwright Tikhonov wrote in 1898: As the most daring and innovative member of the Mighty Handful, Mussorgsky frequently became the target of conservative critics and rival composers, and was often derided for his supposedly clumsy and crude musical idiom. After the premiere of "Boris Godunov", influential critic Herman Laroche wrote: Reviews of the premiere performance of "Boris Godunov" were for the
The Ballad of Little Joe the entire family has been reunited, everyone starts cheering happily, the cheers being so loud that they cause an avalanche of dodgeballs to fall on the two bandits that have tied up the hobo, sparing the hobo's roast hot dog. In addition to the ubiquitous "VeggieTales Theme" and "What We Have Learned," this episode contains the following songs: The Ballad of Little Joe The Ballad of Little Joe is a 2003 American computer-animated western film produced by Big Idea Productions and released theatrically by Classic Media on August 5, 2003. It is the twentieth episode of VeggieTales. The story is