question: The melody of "Baubles, Bangles & Beads"  was based on works by a composer that died in what year?
answer: 1887
context: Title: Dandi Daley Mackall
  Passage: Dandi Daley Mackall is an Americanauthor with around 500 of her works published for adults and children.  Some of her works are the "Winnie the Horse Gentler" series and the "Flipside Stories, The Silence of Murder, and WITH LOVE, WHEREVER YOU ARE, A Novel based on the stories and letters of her parents, Army doctor and Army nurse in WW2 as well as many others.  She collaborated with Sigmund Brouwer and Melody Carlson to take part in creating the "Degrees of Guilt" series and then with Jeff Nesbit and Melody Carlson in the "Degrees of Betrayal" series.  Other animal series include Backyard Horses, Starlight Animal Rescue, and Bob the Horse, and I Can Read series.
  Title: Baubles, Bangles, &amp; Beads
  Passage: "Baubles, Bangles & Beads" is a popular song from the 1953 musical "Kismet", credited to Robert Wright and George Forrest.  Like all the music in that show, the melody was based on works by Alexander Borodin, in this case the second theme of the second movement of his "String Quartet in D."  The "Kismet" setting maintains the original's 3/4 waltz rhythm; pop music settings change the rhythm to a moderate four-beat accompaniment.  Jazz musicians are especially drawn to the song's beguiling melody and advanced harmonic structure.  The familiar AA'BA+Coda structure of the song is energized by a key change up a major third interval for every section; the transition is marked by a bracing harmonic progression from the central major key of one section to the tritone minor key of the following section.  Jazz players and singers have enjoyed the musical challenges of this song for decades.
  Title: Alexander Borodin
  Passage: Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Порфи́рьевич Бороди́н ; ] , 12 November 183327 February 1887) was a Russian Romantic composer of Georgian origin, as well as a doctor and chemist.  He was one of the prominent 19th century composers known as The Mighty Handful, a group dedicated to producing a uniquely Russian kind of classical music, rather than imitating earlier Western European models.
  Title: Christopher Adler
  Passage: Christopher Adler (born 1972) is a musician, composer and music professor at University of San Diego.  A virtuoso player of the khaen, a reed instrument native to Laos and Thailand, he has been composing works for the khaen both as a solo instrument and in combination with western instruments since 1996.  His works for solo piano include the three-part "Bear Woman Dances", commissioned to accompany a dance depicting a Korean creation myth and largely based the Korean musical system nongak.  Four of his compositions have been broadcast internationally on WGBH's "Art of the States" series.  His composition for sheng, viola and percussion, "Music for a Royal Palace", was commissioned by Carnegie Hall for Yo-Yo Ma's "Silk Road Project".  An homage to Thailand's Bang Pa-In Palace, the work incorporates traditional Thai melody and embellishments.  It was performed at Zankel Hall in 2006 and recorded at the Tanglewood Music Center that same year.  His "Serpent of Five Tongues" for sheng and guanzi (traditional Chinese instruments) premiered at the 2011 MATA Festival.
citations: Baubles, Bangles, &amp; Beads Alexander Borodin