Borodin's Polovtsian Dances
from Prince Igor (unfinished)
Kismet (musical) / "Stranger In Paradise"
and several popular movie adaptations

The story of a poet-thief who becomes the Emir of Baghdad in a time of magic. The popular 1953 song was Stranger in Paradise. But the original by Borodin was the Polovtsian Dances from his unfinished symphony of Prince Igor after he dropped dead from a stroke at a party. Borodin was the illegitimate son of a serf and a prince. He had both very technical and creative sides. As I understand it, he tried to do more to help women in their advancement in medicine and science.

Artist: Tony Bennett from "The Very Thought Of You"
adaptation: from the musical "Kismet"
based on Borodin's "Polovtsian Dances"
Words and Music by Robert Wright and George Forrest

Take my hand
I'm a stranger in paradise
All lost in a wonderland
A stranger in paradise

If I stand starry-eyed
That's the danger in paradise
For mortals who stand beside
an angel like you

I saw your face and I ascended
Out of the commonplace into the rare
Somewhere in space I hang suspended
Until I know there's a chance that you care

Won't you answer this fervent prayer
Of a stranger in paradise?
Don't send me in dark despair
From all that I hunger for

But open your angel's arms
To this stranger in paradise
And tell him that he need be
A stranger no more

There are other renditions of this popular song, but I like this one ..... Rennie