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...Rimsky-Korsakov...
Melody Time (Disney; RKO Radio) is a crowded 75 minutes of song-illustrated animation involving: 1) skating lovers, tintype style, emulated by rabbits; 2) Rimsky-Korsakov's bumblebee, tormented by a boogie bass; 3) Johnny Appleseed, advised by a Guardian Angel in a coonskin cap; 4) Donald Duck, Joe Carioca and Organist Ethel Smith in the throes of a samba; 5) an apotheosis of Joyce Kilmer's Trees; 6) a young tugboat named Little Toot which disgraces and redeems itself; 7) a tall-tale, free-for-all finale about Pecos Bill, his horse Widow-maker...
Next day, the critics were merciless. Composer Cesar Cui called the symphony's discords "devilish"; Rimsky-Korsakov told Rachmaninoff, "Forgive me, I do not find this music at all agreeable...
Scheherazade & Soap. At 1:15 p.m., all three stations covered President Truman's State of the Union message (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). NBC imaginatively introduced its program with selections from Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade Suite...
Pittsburgh Symphony (Sat. 3 p.m., NBC). Alexander Gretchaninov's Fifth Symphony; excerpts from Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of Czar Saltan...