Word: glinka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Members of the tour will attend the three main concerts this weekend. On Friday evening, Pierre Monteux will conduct the Boston Symphony in a program composed of selections from Glinka's "Russlan and Ludmilla;" Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony; the Overture to Milhaud's "Les Eumenides," Debussy's "Three Nocturnes," and Ravel's "La Valse...
...weekend will include music by Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Milhaud. Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, and Bartok...
...Glinka: A Life for the Tsar (the National Opera of Belgrade, Oscar Danon conducting; London, 4 LPs). In this Communist-approved version of Glinka's 19th-century flag-waver, as in other current versions, attention has been directed away from the young Tsar and focused on the heroic popular leaders of the national uprising against the invading Poles in 1611-13. With that party-line emendation, the opera's melodramatic plot has been preserved intact. Weak in leading roles (Bass Miro Changalovich and Soprano Maria Glavachevich), the present version is thunderously impressive in its choral and ensemble passages...
...Choirs and State Orchestra of the U.S.S.R., Eugene Mravinsky conducting; Vanguard, 2 sides LP). This oratorio, composed in 1949, won back for Shostakovich the Kremlin favor he lost in 1948. The reason is evident in this first recording to reach the U.S. Strictly old shapka, it sounds more like Glinka in an off-moment than the dissonantly powerful Shostakovich of Symphony No. 5. The performance is rousing, the recording fair...
...fast-developing young company this season (he did five last year, plus one for Britain's Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet), Balanchine made one of them a sure-fire novelty. He decided to introduce his fans to the music of one of his favorite composers, Glinka ("the Verdi of Russia," says Balanchine), and one of his favorite dances, the fiery mazurka. Who could set its style better than Balanchine himself...