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...Handel, Glinka and Dvorak. Against this soothing background, Astronaut Lovell was allowed to strip off his space suit and fly in his underwear. He thus became the first U.S. astronaut to fly without a pressurized suit, which affords the only protection against a sudden, accidental decompression of the Gemini spacecraft...
...Prague (May 12-June 3). Now in its 15th year, it remains the only Eastern European festival as lavish as its Western counterparts. Highlights of its month-long program: Mikhail Glinka's Russian and Ludmilla, a less well-known but far better work than Glinka's only other opera, A Life for the Tsar, Gustav Mahler's massive oratorio, Das Lied von der Erde. to be played in the ancient Gothic St. Vitus Cathedral; the first performance outside Russia of Dmitry Shostakovich's new Concerto lor Violoncello...
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...