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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2 (Moscow State Philharmonic Orchestra, Serge Prokofiev conducting; Disc, 11 sides). Nothing like Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet. This is lean, unsentimental music, composed for a Soviet ballet in 1935. It has never been recorded in the U.S. Performance: good...
...purely magic masks were past history. The Museum's leopard-like Devil .Dancer (see cut) resembles some still in use in Ceylon. And the Eskimo King of the Salmon (see cut), a driftwood disc which looked like neither fish, flesh nor fowl, was but one face of a still-living...
Blues (Stella Brooks; Disc, 6 sides). A little (109 Ibs.) white gal with a blue voice sings the naughty colored lyrics of West End, Jazz Me ("Come On Professor") and other New Orleans classics. Background music by Hot Trumpeter Frankie Newton and five others makes these real collectors' blues. Performance: good...
Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from Three Operas (Soloists, orchestra and chorus of the Moscow State Theater of the U.S.S.R.; Disc, 6 sides). Powerful rumblings by Soviet baritones and bassos, and less spectacular arias by women singers, from Pique Dame, lolanthe and Eugene Onegin. Performance: good. Recording: poor...
Glinka:'Russian and Ludmilla (soloists, chorus and orchestra of the Moscow State Theater of the U.S.S.R.; Disc, 4 sides). One of Russia's oldest operas (1842) released on records for the first time in the U.S. by Moe Asch's new firm (TIME, Feb. 25). The Russians sing vigorously and loud. Performance: good...