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Bored with popularity polls, the New York Herald Tribune's records editor invited readers to submit lists of the five most boring "acknowledged masterpieces" on records. Readers responded with "enthusiasm and unconcealed joy," reported Editor Herbert Kupferberg. Their "most tedious ten": 1) Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, 2) Franck's Symphony in D Minor, 3) Ravel's Bolero, 4) Wagner's Parsifal, 5) Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, 6) Brahms's Requiem, 7) Dvorak's Symphony No. 5 ("New World"). 8) Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"), 9) Wagner's Tristan...
...innovation of the modern virtuoso orchestra is the phenomenally increased importance of the woodwinds. Certain mechanical improvements in some of the woodwinds during the past century have helped to bring about this movement; more important, the new spectrum of orchestral color introduced by such 19th century figures as Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, and Berlioz and developed and refined by virtually every 20th century composer has made greater demands upon woodwind players than upon other instrumentalists. There are few trumpet players today who can play Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, and the Paganini violin concerti dating from the early 19th century...
Ulmer Turner, a Chicago news analyst with an expensive hobby, has been hearing some strange sounds lately out of Radio Moscow. Soviet propaganda. Turner reports, is getting a soft pedal. The time devoted to Russian music (especially Rimsky-Korsakov) is increasing, the announcers are sprouting Oxford accents, and a Big Ben touch has been added: "We pause now while you hear the clock in the Kremlin strike midnight." Turner does not claim to know the significance of these facts, but it is just the kind of information he has long wanted to give his listeners first hand. Last week...
...footed musicals. But occasionally a good film comes out of Russia. One of the best in years is Sadko (Mosfilm; Artkino). Directed by Alexander Ptushko, who also did Stone Flower (TIME, Jan. 27, 1947), it is a hearty, grandly dressed and often beautiful version of the opera* that Rimsky-Korsakov made out of an old Russian fairy tale...
Russian Arias and Songs (Boris Christoff, basso; H.M.V.). One of the world's noblest voices and a program eminently suited for bassos. Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov account for most of the ten selections...