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Star attraction of the season is the carnaval at Rio de Janeiro, which is some thing special even among the gay celebra tions of Latin America: a swirling four-day-and-four-night bender of lights, noise, tinsel and music that makes New Orleans' Mardi Gras look like a...
Bulging Rio's hotels, together with hundreds of Argentines, thousands of upcountry Brazilians, are about 700 Norteamericanos (including Coca-Cola's James Aloysius Farley), more than carnaval has ever drawn before. For this Rio can thank Nelson Rockefeller in his mouth-filling capacity of Coordinator of Commercial and...
Most exacting job in the Rio carnaval belongs to a reporter on the paper A Noite who looks like a Latin edition of Oliver Hardy. For four days each year Senhor San Francisco Cardozo Menezes is carnaval's gaudy, giddy King Momo. In those four days he is on...
Schumann: Carnaval Suite (Myra Hess, pianist; Victor: 6 sides) and Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 (Kurt Appelbaum, pianist; Musicraft: 6 sides).
Then follow a number of movements from Schumann's "Carnaval," a set of short piano pieces here given in a workmanlike, never unduly colorful orchestration made by Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov, Liadov, and Nicolas Chereprin for the Russian Ballet. The most pleasant piece, "Reconnaissance," is omitted; but the rest is good...