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Recently the Russian choreographer Igor Schwezoff brought The Poppy up to date. With a deft tour-en-l'air of the choreographic party line, Schwezoff abolished the evil British commander, converted Tai Hoa's murderer into a Japanese, added a British and a U.S. sailor (both very agreeable fellows), ended with the murder, not of Tai Hoa, but of the Japanese. The Manhattan audience did not seem to mind these alterations. As the Internationale burst from the City Center's orchestra, the crowd broke into cheers...
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Igor Stravinsky conducting; Columbia; 8 sides). A reissue of the composer's recording of his famed musical bombshell. Performance definitive, recording good...
...Igor Stravinsky conducted his own dissonant version of The Star-Spangled Banner at a highly successful Boston Symphony Orchestra concert. Of the anthem, the Associated Press discreetly noted that the audience's "reaction indicated clearly that the Stravinsky arrangement never would take the place of the more familiar version." But Boston Police Commissioner Thomas F. Sullivan said that the composer would not be fined the statutory $100 for breaking the Massachusetts law forbidding any & all tinkering with the Banner...
From Hollywood he had imported Igor Stravinsky to conduct his own Petrouchka, Vera Zorina to glamorize a new ballet called Helen of Troy. But the real balleto manes, who study pirouettes and entre chats as devoutly as a prizefight fan studies left hooks, knew that the season was no great shakes esthetically. They went to Sol Hurok's ballet very largely for one little reason. That reason was a five-foot-two-inch dancer named Alicia Markova...
...almost-equal-to-Toscanini Brahms' Variations on a theme of Haydn, and three choral selections sung by the Cocilia Society and Apollo Clubs of Boston. These included Brahms' "Ein Schicksalslied" (A, Song of Destiny). Wolf's "Der Fuerreiter" (The Fire Riders) and the Borodin Polovetzian Dances from "Prince Igor." The flawlessness of their singing, their round, full warm tone all made for a perfect appearance with Dr. Koussevitsky. As an astute listener by my side sagely summed it up. "If they only knew how to bow in unison, they'd be machines...