Cui's study of fortifications gained from frontline assignment during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 proved quite important for his career.

( Accessed 9 March 2008 ), < http :// www. grovemusic. com > ( Subscription required ).</ ref > Although his abilities as an orchestrator, too, have been disparaged ( notably by his compatriot Rimsky-Korsakov ), some recent recordings ( e. g., of his one-act opera Feast in Time of Plague, from Pushkin ) suggest that Cui's dramatic music might be more interesting to pursue with regard to this feature.

The issue was raised repeatedly, including by chancellors Wei Mo, Pei Xiu, and Cui Shenyou, but he rebuffed all of them, leading to Pei's resignation and Cui's removal.

In the area of art song, however, the vast majority of Cui's vocal music is based on Russian texts.

Some of his most famous art songs include " The Statue at Tsarskoye Selo " (" Царско-сельская статyя ") and " The Burnt Letter ," (" Сожжённое письмо "), both based on poems by Cui's most valued poet, Alexander Pushkin.

Cui's more successful stage works during his lifetime were the one-act comic opera The Mandarin's Son ( publicly premiered in 1878 ), the three-act Prisoner of the Caucasus ( 1883 ), based on Pushkin, and the one-act Mademoiselle Fifi ( 1903 ), based on Guy de Maupassant.

Cui's activities in musical life included also membership on the opera selection committee at the Mariinsky Theatre ; this stint ended in 1883, when both he and Rimsky-Korsakov left the committee in protest of its rejection of Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina.

Nevertheless, despite the fact that more of Cui's music is being made available in recent years in recordings and in new printed editions, his status today in the repertoire is considerably small, based ( in the West ) primarily on some of his piano and chamber music ( such as the violin and piano piece called Orientale ( op.

and who used the instrument on Cui's 1994 album Balls Under the Red Flag ( Hongqi xia de dan )

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Charles ' recording is very commonly played at major sporting and entertainment events, such as the Super Bowl, and WrestleMania 2 ; Charles gave a live performance of the song prior to Super Bowl XXXV, the last Super Bowl played before the September 11 terrorist attacks, as well as during Game 2 of the 2001 World Series after the attacks.

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