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...Only in recent years have U.S. conductors stripped away the lacy ornamentation that Rimsky-Korsakov wrapped around some of his music.* Boris has never been produced at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera the way Musorgsky wrote it; the piano pieces, Pictures at an Exhibition, are usually heard only in latter-day orchestrations by Ravel, Stokowski and others...
Died. Will Fyffe, 62, pawky,* keg-shaped idol of the British music halls; of injuries sustained in a fall; in St. Andrews, Scotland. A court favorite, "Our Wull" had a latter-day career in radio and cinema, but had already won early fame & fortune from another generation of variety enthusiasts as a wry, sly, spry character comedian...
...vigor. After two reels, even the most astute give up trying to follow the incredibly involved machinations of the brothers Marx; in favor of just sitting back and howling. As the story picks up speed, the hectic actions of Groucho and Chico, and the idiotic ones of Harpo make latter-day Bob Hope look like an esthete...
...greatest of all comic strips was the late George Herriman's Krazy Kat, a gentle, loving soul constantly tormented by her great love, Ignatz Mouse, whose joy in life was to "krease his [Kat's] bean" with a brick. Some partisans saw the Kat and Mouse as latter-day versions of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza; Poet E. E. Cummings found Krazy's faithfulness a vindication of the principle of love...
Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks Concerto (Dumbarton Oaks Festival Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky conducting; Keynote, 4 sides). Pleasant latter-day Stravinsky, but baked in only the embers of the once-powerful fire that produced Petrouchka and The Firebird. Recording: good...