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...following is the program which will be played at the Pops concert at 8.15 tonight in Symphony Hall under the direction of Agide Jacchia: Polonaise Militaire Chopin Overture to "William Tell" Rossini Spring Song Mendelssohn Fantasia from "Madam Butterfly" Puccini Suite from "Carnaval" Schumann-Jacchia a. Preamble b. Pierrot c. Chopin d. Reconnaisance e. Sphinxes Trombone Quartet Scherzo, "The Flight of the Bumble Bee" Rimsky-Korsakov Tenth Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt Prelude to the "Mastersingers of Nuremberg" Wagner The Music Box Liadov Waltz, "1001 Nights" Strauss...
...Turandot, posthumous opera of Giacomo Puccini, finished by his friend Franco Alfano, to have its world premiere this week at La Scala, Milan...
...Boheme. In a perfect spasm of Art and classic reverence, Metro-Goldwyn has taken the fiction of Henry Murger, chiefly famous for Puccini's opera written around it, and produced a "super-picture." Lillian Gish and John Gilbert are the players and the director is King Vidor. After failing in an attempt to purchase the cinema rights to the Puccini music (although it is said $150,000 was offered), a complete special score was obtained which approximated the classic melodies. Everything then was done to make the picture memorable. It turned out a trifle-tiresome. The story...
Back to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, after a six-year furlough, came Gianni Schicchi, one-act opera by Giacomo Puccini, last of an uninspiring triptych. Giuseppe De Luca was Schicchi, the canny peasant who, to oblige avaricious relatives, substitutes himself for the corpse only to double-cross them and leave everything to himself; was a good enough buffoon to keep people's minds off the diluted melodies sketchily flung together; and sent them home snickering...
...shouted Walska, "I have sung it 15 times all over Europe. I went over the stage business with Puccini himself...