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Only two works were performed last Sunday--Five Pieces for violin and piano by Prokofieff, and Roussel's String Trio, Op. 58. The String Trio is one of Roussel's last compositions. Like all of his music it is marked by dissonant harmonic and contrapuntal effects. In spite of this, the first two movements have a lyrical lushness which will probably be considered saccharine in not so many years. The last movement is in a style which Roussel favored in his middle life. Dance-like and acridly dissonant, it has the same verve for which many passages in the Symphony...
...Prokofieff: Peter and the Wolf (Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Richard Hale, narrator; Victor, 6 sides). An engaging "orchestral fairy tale," full of duck-quacks (oboe), bird-twitters (flute), wolf-growls (horns), jovially rendered by the Bostonians who gave it its first U. S. hearing last year. Album of the month...
...salary, the Illinois Symphony actually began to pile up a profit at the box office. The size of this profit put it in a different class from most other WPA orchestras, enabled it to pay the high performance royalties asked by such ace contemporary composers as Dmitri Shostakovich, Serge Prokofieff, Paul Hindemith, Jean Sibelius...
After another quick change, this time to their store clothes, Conductor Koussevitzky and his men gave Manhattanites their first taste of Serge Prokofieff's children's suite, Peter and the Wolf, made them whoop and giggle to hear Peter's duck (the oboe) quack mournfully inside the hungry wolf's stomach (three French horns). With the evening topped off with waltzes by Johann Strauss, Sibelius and Ravel, concertgoers felt that Henry Lee Higginson's band had kicked up its heels about as much as any self-respecting 58-year-old symphony had a right...
...Prokofieff: Program of Piano Music (Played by the composer; Victor: 8 sides). A sheaf of miniatures by the trickiest of today's composers...