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...music lovers can now hear the paraphrases on the immemorial "Chopsticks," or Tati-Tati, as it later was called, performed by full orchestra. Alfred Frankenstein, music critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, had a copy of the paraphrases, suggested to Conductor Werner Janssen that he orchestrate it. Columbia Records heard about it, suggested a recording with Janssen conducting the Columbia Symphony. A little research revealed that half of the paraphrases had already been orchestrated, under the title Tati-Tati, by a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov's, Nicolai Tcherepnine. Columbia put Tcherepnine's version on one side...
...unless they had a broken bone, are part of football history. The two schools that shaped early football have conceded to the two-platoon system, but not to the commercial football idea. Perhaps they remember that the game was their baby, and don't want it to be their Frankenstein...
...fact is not that Yale is 250 years old today, but how it managed to get that old. For Yale, which is now Gothically situated in New Haven, was spawned, nursed, and sent out into the Great World by Harvard men. In return for this loving care Yale, like Frankenstein's monster, has turned on its creator and done all sorts of outrageous things--such as beating the Crimson quite regularly in football. This type of thing is quite like Yale, which has capitalized on Harvard's temporary weaknesses all through its life...
...looked as though he might chew up every backdrop in California; with a rich, bellowing bass to match his histrionics, the effect was heroic. After the death scene, the bravos all but blew the house in. Even the critics sounded their A's. The Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein: "Never before have I heard an audience gasp when an operatic hero fell dead; this is the final measure of the conviction with which Rossi played Boris." Declared Critic Cecil Smith in the News: "The most commanding Boris since Chaliapin...
...Charlotte Boerner, soprano; Janssen Symphony Orchestra, Werner Janssen conducting; Capitol, 1 side LP). Berg's masterful concert aria extols the qualities of wine ("I make your wife's eyes sparkle and give fresh strength to your son") in twelve-tone style. San Francisco Chronicle Music Critic Alfred Frankenstein explains the twelve-tone language (with Bergian illustrations) on the second side. Performance and recording: excellent...