Don’t be a moron, idiot. “The Song of the Volga Boatmen” is a folk song from the Volga River Valley in western Russia. The song is a recurring theme in The Volga Boatmen, Cecil B. DeMille’s first ...

Bill Finegan obituary: The obituary of arranger Bill Finegan in Monday’s California section gave the name of composer Stefan Wolpe as Stan Wolpe. The title of the tune “Song of the Volga Boatmen” was ...

Borrowing from your own, or some other nation’s, storehouse of folk music is an old composer’s trick. Dvorak and Puccini used U.S. tunes. Tchaikovsky not only reworked Russia’s own Song of the Volga ...