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...program with the singers will be two-piano pieces by Darius Milhaud and Theodore Chanler and the four-hand sonata by Hindesmith, while the group will conclude the concert with the first American presentation of the cantata "Secheresses" by Francis Poulenc...
...fled to the U.S. For nearly two years New York considered her just another refugee. Then Toscanini signed her to sing Juliette in Berlioz's dramatic symphony Romeo et Juliette, and Stokowski chose her to sing the mezzo-soprano solo in the U.S. premiere of Prokofiev's cantata, Alexander Nevsky. Says Jennie: "All of a sudden everything came to me." After her Town Hall debut in 1943, the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson wrote: "Miss Tourel's conquest . . . was . . . without any local parallel since Kirsten Flagstad's debut at the Metropolitan Opera House...
...Bach: Cantata No. 106: "God's Time Is Best" (Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society with chamber orchestra, G. Wallace Woodworth conducting; Technicord, 6 sides). An early Bach cantata for a funeral service meticulously performed on the small scale in which it was written...
Prokofiev: "Alexander Nevsky" Cantata (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting, Jennie Tourel and the Westminster Choir; Columbia, 10 sides). Russia's greatest living composer shuttles from Gregorian chants to jazzy brass fanfares in this expanded, concert-hall version of his score for a Sergei Eisenstein film. Performance: good...
...well known in the U.S. for the kind of superpatriotic melodrama that characterized Shostakovich's Leningrad and May Day symphonies. But he has written his share. In 1939, as a birthday present to his boss, he wrote a piece called Homage to Stalin. He also did a Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, using words by Marx, Lenin and Stalin. Except for a Romeo and Juliet suite, nearly everything he has written in the U.S.S.R. has been built on Russian folk themes, and to glorify Russia's past and present. And his hard, brilliant, unsentimental...