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...Tosca. He would like to sing Falstaff. the role Scotti was singing that night eight years ago when the audience suddenly started shouting "Tibbett! Tibbett!" stopping the show for 20 minutes because it liked the young American who sang the part of Ford. He would like to sing Boris Godounov, particularly since his acting in Simone Boccanegra reminded people, not unfavorably, of great Basso Chaliapin...
Last June Albert Coates got a notable job: the general music directorship of the United Philharmonic Orchestras of the U. S. S. R. and musical directorship of the opera houses of Moscow and Leningrad. Last year Conductor Coates had plenty to do; he might conduct a Boris Godounov in Moscow one night, hurry off to rehearse in Leningrad the next morning. Next year he will be even busier. Besides working with the excellent orchestras and operas of Russia's two chief cities, he must improve the mediocre ones at Tiflis, Baku, Kiev, Kharkov, Svendlovsk, Stalingrad and possibly others...
...magnificently, gave great dignity and force to the corsair who rose to be Doge in Genoa, finally died by the hand of his hunchbacked henchman. In one scene where he stopped a brawl and set a curse on the cringing hunchback, he was impressive enough to suggest the Boris Godounov of Basso Feodor Chaliapin. From beginning to end he behaved like a thoroughgoing artist not in the least warped by his cinema-radio success...
...Parry: "Inimici Autem", by O. Lassus: "Salamaleikum", by Peter Cornelius: "Marching", Johannes Brahms: "Turn Ye to Me", a Scottish folk song: choruses from "Pinafore", by Sir Arthur Sullivan: "The Hundred Pipers", a Scottish folk song: "Adoramus Tes Palestrina: and the coronation scene from "Boris Godounov", by Moussorgsky. The program will close with the singing of Harvard and Yale songs...
Moussorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain by Philippe Gaubert and the ?Paris Conservatory Orchestra (Columbia, 2 records, $2 ea.)?In three parts, this glittering, skirling fantasia fully reveals the mind which created Macbeth-like Boris Godounov. Bizet's Adagietto from L'Arlésienne Suite, on the back of the second disc, recorded by Willem Mengelberg and Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam...