Word: nicolai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolai Lyric Suite Grieg Shepherd Boy--Nocturne--March of the Gnomes "Benvenuto Cellini," Overture Berlioz "Don Juan," Symphonic Poem Strauss "Der Rosenkavalier," Waltzes Strauss "Dance of Salome" from "Salome" Strauss A Comedy Overture on Negro Themes Gilbert Molly on the Shore Grainger Bacchanale from "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens
...understand performers who make fun of serious music, burlesquing well-known classics, but how performers can, without irreverence, have fun with music these complainers cannot see. Few such gentry were in the Cleveland audience which last week heard a drunken Russian cab driver conduct the Volga boat-song. Nicolai Sokolov, Cleveland Orchestra conductor, famed interpreter of the Russians, had just directed his orchestra through an all-Tchaikovsky program that ranged from a tuneful bonbon for fatigued capitalists (the Sleeping Beauty Waltz) to the rounded maturity of the Fourth Symphony-all played magnificently. When the concert was over, 100 guests remained...
...full program follows: March, "Sambre et Mouse" Planquette-Turlet Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolai Serenade Drigo Fantasia, L'Oracolo Leoni Introduction to Act III "Lohengrin" Wagner La Campanella Handel-Jacchia Preghiera von Doenhoff-Press Fourteenth Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt Ballet Suite, "Nutcracker" Tchaikovsky Trepak Arabian Dance Dance of the Penny Whistles Corloba Albeniz-Jacchia Waltz, "Pomone" Waldteufel
...remedy for this? It is to place men at the head of our universities who are strong, who will stand up and protect their men from the criticisms of capital. We want men like President Hopkins of Dartmouth, who told its alumni that he would not care if Nicolai Lenine came to Dartmouth...
...place of Stanislavski's love of local color, the heavy Russian atmosphere so thick you can cut it with a knife, Evreinov tries to give us an international, a universal theatre that will appeal alike to all manners and races of men. In place of the realistic this Nicolai Nicolaevich would give us, the theatre frankly theatrical...