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Stalin's new constitution encouraged a Russian type of music again. Soviet critics found it in Ivan Dzerjinsky's Quiet Flows the Don, a folk-music potpourri (based on M. Sholokhov's novel) that sounded to Russians the way Victor Herbert sounds to Americans...
...simplicity itself. No futuristic dream, Rose's postwar world is merely the good old days. Beginning with a riotous "Night of Unconditional Surrender," it shows a restored Gay Paree of foamy-petticoated cancan dancers; a restored lustige Wien waltzing to Lehar and Strauss; a melodious potpourri of old Jerome Kern tunes. Last comes a Victory Ball attended by Roosevelt, Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek and Stalin. Making up in jubilation for what it lacks in taste, Rose's version of the Four Freedoms is four galumphing female heavyweights...
...Help Cairo. All through the summer, 140 miles behind the lines, Cairo had sweltered and fidgeted, stirring uneasily under an occasional sprinkle of Axis aerial bombs. In & out of gaudy, mosquelike Shepheard's Hotel had streamed the city's potpourri: cotton kings, gamblers, Imperial soldiers, newsmen and Cecil Beaton, wincing at the din of "hurdy-gurdies, bicycle bells, news vendors, trams, bagpipes, loudspeakers and the braying of donkeys...
Kern: Show Boat: Scenario for Orchestra (Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinski; Columbia; 6 sides). The Show Boat tunes, some of the bravest in U.S. operetta, were dressed up last year by their composer in symphonic finery at the persuasion of Conductor Rodzinski. The resulting potpourri is lush, places Jerome Kern no whit nearer Beethoven as a symphonist, but Rodzinski's silky performance makes even more apparent Kern's Schubertian gift for melody...
...favorite subjects for school Christmas plays is a potpourri entitled "Christmas in Many Lands" and tracing Santa's journey from the Arctic wastes to the fireside of every nationality, dropping gifts indiscriminately in Belgian sabots, Persian slippers, and even Japanese clogs. The moral has something to do with the brotherhood of man, and everybody ends up singing carols...