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Later they recorded three more sides: the mood, Pastiche, a violent Rimsky-Korsakov; the two "jumpers," Double Doghouse (using two bass fiddles instead of one) and A Slight Case of the Shakes, Brick's version of a hangover. "Not a clinker" (sour note), said the maestro happily...
WTAG was Russian virtually all day, all week. Its 37 musical programs concentrated on Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Moussorgsky, Shostakovich and Prokofiev. Women listening to the Modern Kitchen program jotted down new recipes for beef a la Strogonov, flounder grecheski, pickled herring, borsch, and honey beet jam.* Speakers on WTAG's weekly Forum broadcast from Clark University were Russian Vice-Consul Stepan Z. Apresian and Cornell University's Professor of Russian Literature Ernest J. Simmons. The one radio stunt of the week that didn't come off was an address by Moscow Novelist S. Sergeyev-Tsensky...
Typical numbers were the Tchaikovsky Romance, Vassilenko Oriental Dance, Borodin Chorus from Prince Igor, Liadov Russian Folk Songs and Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee (with Ivanov playing the part of the Queen Bee). Liadov's simple Russian songs were melancholy and lovely even on these unsimple Russian machines...
Simons will be soloist in the performance of Beethoven's First Piano Concerto. In addition, George Brown will conduct the combined orchestras in Mozart's Symphony Number 35 (the Haffner Symphony) and in works of Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin...
Commemorating these achievements, the Council of Peoples Commissars last week directed: 1) publication of a new complete edition of Rimsky-Korsakov's work; 2) erection of his statue in Leningrad; 3 ) renaming the Leningrad Conservatory in his honor; 4) reopening the Rimsky-Korsakov Museum in Tikhvin where he was born; 5) establishment of eight "Rimsky-Korsakov" scholarships for young Soviet composers; 6) designation of his library and archives as State treasures; 7) sponsorship of a Soviet film based on his life; 8) establishment of lifelong pensions for his two sons and daughter (500 rubles a month) and granddaughter...