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...State set about overcoming this shameful symphonic weakness. Officially smiled upon was a group of contemporary Italian orchestral composers, headed by the late Ottorino Respighi (Pini di Roma), lean-faced Ildebrando Pizzetti (Rondo Veneziano), gloomy, Venetian-born Gian Francesco Malipiero (Pause del Silenzio) and dapper, energetic Alfredo Casella (La Giara). Dominant influence on these composers was that of French Impressionists Debussy and Ravel, though Casella and Malipiero occasionally toddled in Stravinsky's footsteps...
...Ballet. For years the Metropolitan ballet has been slipshod. Ballet mistress was Rosina Galli, second wife of retired Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza. Not since 1927 has an independent ballet (Casella's La Giara) been given at the Metropolitan. Last week Manager Johnson made ready to cash in on the current popularity of ballet. He announced the engagement of the American Ballet, the lively organization founded by Edward M. M. Warburg and Lincoln Kirstein, with Russian George Balanchine as director (TIME, Dec. 17). From the present Metropolitan ballet, Balanchine will add to his group of 27 dancers, according to Manager...
...Pops tonight. Overture to "Masaniello" Auber Suite from "Carmen" Bizet Aragonaise Intermezzo The Dragons of Alcala Prelude to Act I Abdon W. Laus, Conductor Wedding March from "Le Coq d'Or" Rimsky-Korsakov Prelude to "Khovantchina" Moussorgsky Scherzo and March from "The Love for Three Oranges" Prokofieff "La Giara," Eallet Suite Casella Tenor Solo: Rulon Y. Robison "Suite Primeval" Skilton "Molly on the Shore" Grainger "Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa
...Giara, "choreographic comedy" in one act, by Alfredo Casella; scenario based on a plot by Luigi Pirandello, famed Italian playwright...
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