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...Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Ballet Suite (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Tchaikovsky's romantic overture lent itself to Tin Pan Alley thievery; this does not. Prokofiev makes Miss Capulet and Mr. Montague's troubles far more dissonant and disturbing. Performance: excellent...
...lamppost and chirp with the National Symphony Orchestra at Washington's Water Gate concerts, was at it again. Melody, says the Symphony's manager, prefers Mozart and Schubert, but last week he gave a notable and unadvertised rendition of the bird part in Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. "He did not strike a single false note," said Washington Evening Star Critic Alice Eversman. "If he could only read the scores-" sighed one of the musicians. But trouble lurked: Melody carries no card in Petrillo's Musicians' Union...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Overture to Wolf-Ferrari's The Secret of Susanne, Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. Narrator: Basil Rathbone...
TIME'S piece on Dmitri Shostakovich [TIME, June 9] dogmatically names him "one of the five greatest living composers (the others: Sergei Prokofiev, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Sibelius...
...record of 1945.* Taking Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 apart, he extracted Ever and Forever from the first movement, and Full Moon and Empty Arms from the third. He rewrote the Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and called it Time Stands Still. He converted Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf into Dingbat the Singing Cat and is now waiting for When I Write My Song (from Saint-Saens' aria My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice) to make the Hit Parade. Rimsky-Korsakov's Hymn to the Sun became Mossman...