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Loud Roars. Beginning with the Adagio from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, Ulanova, with muscular Partner Juri Kondratov, sparkled through a rigorous program with top polish and variety: a selection from Schumann's Carnaval, Chopin's Waltz No. 7, a bit from Glière's Red Poppy, Death of the Swan to music by Saint-Saëns, and an overawing acrobatic finale, Rubinstein's Waltz. Each number drew loud, continuous roars...
Also honored: the 75-year-old dean of Russian composers, Reinhold Glière, for his new ballet score. The Bronze Horseman. The production of his 23-year-old Red Poppy, one of the most popular ballets in Russia, won prizes for ten leading performers and the directors of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater...
...bring them from the boat train. "Sorry," he announced, "but we simply can't have people arriving here in charabancs." There were other Europeans even quicker to pull in the welcome mat. "In Venice," says the guide book, "you may hear nationalists in barrooms chanting, 'Andate via, gli stranieri!' But then, the monolingual U.S. tourist might never suspect that those musical words mean, 'Go away, foreigners...
...Viva Gli Zulu!" Last June, bonfires in Anticoli's square and the Red Flag fluttering from Roviano's tower heralded the election victory of the Socialist-Communist bloc over landowners and shopkeepers. The Christian Democrats virtually threw the election away when their provincial leader, coming to a rally of the local party, swung into Roviano driving a long, sleek Alfa Romeo. Roviano's children, squealing with delight, climbed all over the strange vehicle, but the citizenry hooted its driver out of town. In Anticoli, a pretty young girl who was chief Communist organizer practically swung the election...
Orchestras of the Nation (Sat. 3 p.m., NBC). The Indianapolis Symphony gives the radio premieres of Deems Taylor's Elegy for Orchestra and Reinhold Glière's Friendship of People overture. Conductor: Fabien Sevitzky...