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March MilitaireSaint-Saens Overture to "Light Cavalry" Suppe Serenade, "Trastullo" Langendoen Fantasia, "Madam Butterfly" Puccini Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg Morning Mood--In the Troll King's Grotto Ave Maria from "Othello" Verdi Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin (Piano Solo: Jesus Sanroma) Ballet from "The Cid" Massenet Castillane Andalouse Aragonaise Aubade Printaniere Lacombe American Fantasy Herbert
Tomorrow night, Wellesley College night, the following program will be played at the Pops concert at 8.15 o'clock: Overture to "Masaniello" Auber Waltz of the Flowers Tchalkovsky Fantasic, "Madam Butterfly" Puccini Songs by Wellesley College Choir Scenes Pittoresques Massenet a. Air de Ballet b. Fete Boheme The Swan Saint-Saens Violoncello Solo: Jacobus Langendgen Rondo Capriccioso Mendelssohn a. Organ Solo: Finale Lemmens Prof. H. C. Macdougall b. Choir: Wellesley Medley Overture to "The Flying Durtchman" Wagner Indian Lament Dvoraki-Krellsler Pomp and Circumstance Elgar
...lustre pervaded the gilded interior of the Scala Theatre, in Milan, last week, reminiscent. It was the occasion of the premiere of Turandot, posthumous opera of Giacomo Puccini, presented as he left it 17 months ago, unfinished. Critics, managers, connoisseurs the world over took the pilgrimage to Milan, hopefully, fearfully. Would Turandot be of the stuff of which La Boheme was made, La Tosca, Madame Butterfly?melodious, lovely, appealing, human above all operatic ingredients, or would it savor more of The Girl of the Golden West, of the later tryptich,* pappy, dull...
They were rather slow to commit themselves, those who went. They were awed by the solemnity of the occasion, by the magnificence of Toscanini's production. It was not pappy, they said, not dull. Nor yet had it the characteristics of Boheme. It seemed rather not to be like Puccini at all. It was spectacular, Chinese with a decidedly Italian flavor, the story of a beautiful, cruel princess, chaste as a buttercup, up for marriage to the one who succeeds in unraveling three riddles she propounds. The Prince of Persia comes, dares to try, to risk his head...
...point Toscanini turned to the audience, said: "The composer worked until this point and then died." It seemed uncanny to the audience that it should have ended with the slave girl's aria, the one big bit of unaffected melody. They waited eagerly to hear the ending written by Puccini's friend, Franco Alfano, from Puccini's notes, with which the Scala company is already prepared. They commended, meanwhile, the superb Turandot of Rosa Raisa, the creditable Prince of Miguel Fleta, the attractive, winning Liu of Maria Zamboni...