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Conducted by George Brown, the orchestra will have Miss Nell Robin, Radcliffe '46, as the soloist. The program includes Mozart's Symphony number 39, Boccherini's Concerto in B flat for violoncello, Moussorgsky's Introduction to Khovantchina, and Johann Strauss' Overture to Die Fledermaus...
Moussorgsky's Khovantchina Prelude and Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumble Bee by Sir Hamilton Harty and the Halle Orchestra of Manchester (Columbia, $2) - Superlative recording of the music of onetime roommates. Khovantchina, like Moussorgsky's Boris, is as Russian in character as Red Square in Moscow, its first scene. Rimsky's Bee is less important but better known by reason of its flashing imagery...
...came songs with strange, bright har monies and crazy, reckless rhythms. Came Boris with its savage splendor and Tchaikovsky wrote: &"As for Moussorgsky's music, it can go to the devil for all I care - it is a low, vile parody of the real thing." Came Khovantchina, The Fair at Sorotchintzy, The Marriage, miscellaneous cho ruses, compositions for piano, for orchestra. The artist grew but the man lost money, friends, reputation. When at 42, he died, it was alone, in a hospital, of delirium tremens. Then was he first hailed as a giant, then was his monument erected...
...following program will be given at the Pops tonight. Overture to "Masaniello" Auber Suite from "Carmen" Bizet Aragonaise Intermezzo The Dragons of Alcala Prelude to Act I Abdon W. Laus, Conductor Wedding March from "Le Coq d'Or" Rimsky-Korsakov Prelude to "Khovantchina" Moussorgsky Scherzo and March from "The Love for Three Oranges" Prokofieff "La Giara," Eallet Suite Casella Tenor Solo: Rulon Y. Robison "Suite Primeval" Skilton "Molly on the Shore" Grainger "Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa
...program of purely Russian music will be given at the Pops tonight. The program follows: Overture to "Russlan and Ludmilla" Glinka "Khovantchina," Prelude Moussorgsky Prelude in C-sharp minor Rachmaninoff Polovtsian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin Symphony No. 6 in B minor, "Pathetic," Tchaikovsky Op. 74 Adagio; Allegro non troppo Allegro con grazia Allegro molto vivace Finale; Adagio Iamentoso Kikimora, A Fairy Legend Liadov Berceuse from "The Fire-Bird" Stravinsky Caprice on Spanish Themes Rimsky-Korsakov...