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Final guest conductor of the evening will be Leroy Anderson '29, well known here as former leader of the University Band. He will present the Dance of the Buffoons from Rimsky-Korsakov's "Snow Maiden," and Strauss's "Vienna Blood" Waltzes. Concluding the program is one of Anderson's own composition called Harvard Fantasy...
...Military Polonaise Chopin-Glazounov *Large, from the "New World" Symphony Dvorak *Entrance of the Little Fauns Pierne *Waltz of the Flowers, from the "Nutcracker" Suite Tchaikovsky *"The Prince and the Princess," from "Scheherazade" Rimsky-Korsakov *Ave Maria Bach-Gounod *Bolero Ravel College Medley by the Regis College Glee Club Fantasy, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" Churchill-Bodge *March, "Pomp and Circumstance" Elgar...
Meanwhile, Soviet musical authorities, who had suddenly developed a tremendous respect for such romantic 19th-Century composers as Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov (both previously considered horrible examples of bourgeois sentimentality), got themselves a new approved list of less modernistic composers. First to shine among the new group was young Ivan Dzerzhinsky, whose melodious, folk-song-inspired opera And Quiet Flows the Don was contrasted favorably with that "muddle of sound, raucous cacophony and lascivious naturalism," Lady Macbeth. Most talented of the new group was shy, sandy-haired, 24-year-old Tykon Krennikov, whose deep, contemplative First Symphony was hailed...
...battle of closeups, throughout most of the film, Miss Swarthout's singing interludes come through in furtive fragments. Her repertory includes the Berceuse from Jocelyn while Boles and Barrymore play a ticktacktoe; the Habanera aria from Carmen, shot through with closeups of Actor Boles asleep; and Rimsky-Korsakov's Song of India, during which she finally manages to get the camera's undivided attention. Best-staged sequence in the film, however, is her singing with Boles of the duet from Don Giovanni...
With Saul Lancourt, former assistant director of the Chautauqua Opera Association, as production manager, and with professional adult actors, dancers and singers, Junior Programs this season is producing two operas, Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel and Rimsky-Korsakov's Bumble Bee Prince; two ballets with accompanying narrative, Pinocchio and The Princess and the Swineherd, written for this project; one play, The Reward of the Sun God, by John Louw Nelson. Junior Programs' repertoire also includes marionets, monologists, films, musicians. By far the most popular are the ballets...