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...full nationalistic stride, the Soviet Union last week got around to honoring the man who did more than any other to make Russian music Russian-genial, bush-bearded Nikolai Andreievich Rimsky-Korsakov. The occasion was the 100th anniversary of his birth. The composer of Scheherazade and 15 operas (Coq d'Or, the Snow Maiden, etc.) was the most scholarly member of the famed "Five" (the others: Mussorgsky, Balakireff, Borodin, Cui) who in the '60s weaned Russian music from the influence of German Romanticism and Italian opera. He was also the author of important treatises on harmony and orchestration...
...program, in order of presentation, is a follows: Schubert's Tragic Symphony, the first movement of Schumann's Piano Concerts, Turkish March from Beethoven's Ruins of Athens, Kamarin Skaya by Glinka, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Dance of Buffoons from the Snow Maiden...
Harry James and his band rock Winsocki to its foundations-the ballroom scene demands that the spectator love the Jamesian trumpet as St. Francis loved the birds. (Harry's rendition of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumble Bee makes the old-fashioned trumpet solo sound like a first lesson in occupational therapy.) But once the maestro parks his horn and takes the floor with bouncing, pint-sized Nancy Walker for a comedy dance which is the high point of the whole proceedings...
...Rimsky-Korsakov. In Moscow the wounds seemed more like things of the past than of the imminently fearful present. Factory girls still twined flowers in their hair. Water carts sprinkled streets deep with dust under a cloudless sky. Mobile soda fountains sold charged water for 30 kopecks. A lathe worker poked at tobacco plants in his spare-time garden plot, wondered if he would be lucky in a new national lottery in which each worker was asked to spend 10% of his salary. Tousle-haired children in costume played in the parks. A baboon escaped from the Moscow...
...some 80 years Russian music had been strongly influenced by "The Five"- César Cui, an engineer; Modest Mussorgsky (Boris Godunov), a government clerk and famed tosspot; Alexander Borodin (Prince Igor), a doctor; Nicolas Rimsky-Korsakov, a naval officer; Mily Balakirev, a professional musician. In opposition to the international style of Tchaikovsky, "The Five" believed that the source of Russian music should be Russian-folk songs and church music. Igor Stravinsky (Petrouchka, The Fire Bird) continued this nationalist tradition, though he later abandoned it for severe and arid abstractions...