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Next was another familiar work, Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, giving the ringers a chance to display the virtuosity for which they are so justly famous. Following this came one of the group's specialties, a group of Russian Folk songs, selected from The Fireside Book of Siberian Laments, an anthology which is second only to Bach's Clavieruebung in the ranks of the great musical collections. The ringers were generous enough to perform seven, the last in response to demands for an encore telephoned in during the intermission. It is hard to choose a favorite from among...
...Pompadour, you've heard of Madame DuBarry. Now dig Madame Curie, the greatest madame of them all!" From their turkey Bonanza Bound, they resurrect Inspiration, which credits women with inspiring great men through the ages. "That's enough of that Oriental stuff," cries Betty as Composer Rimsky-Korsakov's wife. "Just look around you in your own backyard." Suddenly she sees a backyard bee, screams, and Adolph frantically pursues the pest while buzz-buzzing The Flight of the Bumblebee...
SCHEHERAZADE (Rimsky-Korsakov): Ormandy and the Philadelphia...
SCHEHERAZADE (Rimsky-Korsakov): Ernest Ansermet conducting the Paris Conservatory Orchestra...
Last week Conductor James Robertson led the Wichita Symphony in its third concert of the season. The program ranged from the almost-modern Sibelius Concerto in D Minor (with 28-year-old Violinist Aaron Rosand) to Rimsky-Korsakov's well-worn Scheherazade-which miffed a few of Wichita's growing number of musical sophisticates, but wowed the big audiences. The performances sounded as rich and bold as a big-city orchestra...