Word: polkas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Czech opera: Bedŕich Smetana's The Bartered Bride. Managed by tall, lean C. David Hocker, musically directed by short, swart Sylvan Levin, the Philadelphia troupe has 22 singers, average age about 27, all but one homegrown. The simple fooleries of The Bartered Bride, set to simple, polka-dotted tunes, showed off some notable young talent: Basso Luke Matz (music supervisor in the Unionville, Pa. public school), as a jovial village marriage broker; Soprano Frances Greer (Philadelphia church singer), as the unwilling betrothed of the village simpleton (Tenor John Toms, voice teacher); Tenor Edward Nyborg (Philadelphia tailor...
...Suite Rameau-Motti Minuet from "Platee"--Musette Tambourin from "Fetes d'Hebe" *Scherzo from Octet Mendelssohn *Prelude to "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Wagner *Piano Concerto to No. 2, in F minor Chopin Soloist: ELIZABETH TRAVIS *"Show Boat," Selection Kern *Fugato on a Well-Known Theme McBride "Thunder and Lighting," Polka Strauss...
Smetana: Quartet No. I ("From My Life") (Curtis String Quartet; Columbia: 7 sides) and Dvořák: Sextet in A Major (Budapest String Quartet, with John Moore, second cello, and Watson Forbes, second viola; Victor: 8 sides). Polka-dotted nostalgia by old Bohemia's greatest composers; the Dvořák for the first time on records...
Pratt whose home is in Milton makes his college residence at Senior House. As a Freshman he was head of the Jubilee Committee and played back on the football team. He did an Austrian polka in the Hasty Pudding show two years ago and was publicity director last year...
...Chestnut Tree (Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia: four sides). An English pseudo-folk song made famous when King George VI sang it at a boys' camp (TIME, Oct. 23), Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree was really written by old-fashioned British Composer William Sterndale Bennett. The spirited, polka-dotted variations on it by Czech Weinberger (who thought it a genuine antique) get brilliant treatment from the Clevelanders...