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Igor Stravinsky became an overnight celebrity in Russia when he wrote Fireworks as a wedding present for Rimsky-Korsakov's daughter. Diaghilev commissioned him in 1910 to compose for the Russian Ballet. In the next few years Stravinsky's name sped across Europe as the author of the blazing, polyphonic Firebird and the riotous Petrouchka. The harsh, neolithic percussions of Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps were less welcome, made first-nighters in Paris hiss and jeer. Stravinsky unconcernedly went his way. Suddenly he announced he was through with picture-music and would "return to Bach." His style...
...Secret Marriage. Both operas are to be sung in English. Manager Johnson also plans revivals of such operas as Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Saint-Saens's Samson et Dalila, Smetana's Bartered Bride (held over from last spring), Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or (for which Lily Pons spent this summer learning how to dance & kick), Mozart's Don Giovanni, Bellini's Norma...
...fact that he at least is smugly sure of himself. He is self-critical only when speaking of his school days. He got consistently poor marks. His father, a basso at the Imperial Opera, wanted to make him a lawyer, consented to a musical career only when Rimsky-Korsakov was sufficiently impressed to take the boy for a pupil...
...Symphony Hall. The program includes Schumann's Fantasy in C major, Opus 131, (which Mr. Kreisler has been editing for several years), Bach's Sonata in G minor for violin alone, the second movement of Paganini's Second Concerto, and the Fantasy on Russian themes of Rimsky-Korsakov, arranged by Kreisler...
...latest reports nothing in London had pleased the Sheik and his sons so much as the Russian Ballet's performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherezade, an Arabian Nights fantasy in which a Sultana and all her co-wives betray their Sultan on the stage with Negro slaves, afterward are butchered by the Sultan's soldiers. Although cultivated Mayfair and Manhattan consider Scheherezade merely esthetic, the Sheik & Sons watched it with savage joy, their nostrils quivering and eyes bugging as the Negro slaves and fair wives heaved. "The Sheik never mentions his own wives to unbelievers," confided...