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...with the "Gid" footing the bill. 7:35 Opera Night: Wagner's "Tannhauser" 8:45 Selective Service: your questions answered by Major Weden 9:00 "Nine O'clock Jump" 9:30 Al Levine: His songs and Hot Accordion 9:45 "Crimson Concert Hall" Liszi-Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 Rimski-Korsakov - Scheherazade 10:45 Crimson News
...Rimsky-Korsakov's much-played Flight of the Bumble Bee comes from an opera, Tsar Saltan, little played outside of Russia. At the opera's climax the son of Tsar Saltan turns into a bumblebee, stings two wicked women, eludes pursuing courtiers. Last week a Manhattan audience screamed and yowled with delight at this tale. The opera, retitled The Bumble Bee Prince, was put on by a non-commercial organization called Junior Programs, Inc. The audience: 1,600 school children, aged 5 to 15 (700 more were turned away). Admission...
...albums Decca has released. Influenced by the melodies of Asia and North Africa, influencing the melodies of Eastern and Central Europe, Turkish music has everything from Bedouin thump to gypsy stomp. Notable in this collection is the weird and haunting Taxim, a harem dance which indicates that Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky were not faking their Moslem themes...
...there is one generalization which can safely be drawn concerning music today it is that this is a primarily symphonic age. All over the country people flock to concert-halls to hear the modern orchestra, like some gigantic cocktail-shaker, dish up a little Beethoven, Wagner, and Rimsky-Korsakov...
...Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky *Second Hungarlan Rhapsody Liszt *Liebestraum Liszt-Herbert *Bolero Ravel *Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin Soloist: JESUS MARIA SANROMA *The Ride of the Valkyries Wagner Encores: *Introduction to Act III, "Lohengrin Wagner "Jealousy," Gypsy Tango Gade "Hora Staccato" Dinicu-Heifotz *The Flight of the Bumble Bee Rimsky-Korsakov...