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Writer Paul Morand wrote the film version of Don Quixote, Composer Maurice Ravel the music. The producers are hoping that again, as with Bolero, Ravel has exercised his flair for writing music which will please all kinds of people. To pay its way the film will need music more captivating than Massenet's flaccid operatic score. Chaliapin has been given two supporting casts, one English (Nelson Film, producers), one French (Nelson and Vandor, producers). He is said to be asking $200,000 as his share of the returns. Because he asked $4,000 a concert. Chaliapin's last...
...street in Havana called La Frita. The Rumba is a "symphonic overture" based on Cuban themes, for full orchestra plus bongo (tom-tom), maracas (rattle), gourd and sticks. At its first hearing it seemed lengthy, sometimes dull; but were it tightened up it might well compete with Ravel's Bolero, a work more shrewdly conceived but of considerably less musical interest...
...same conductor. Audiences have been bigger when guest conductors came to Cleveland, like Sir Hamilton Harty (who will guest conduct during Conductor Sokoloff's customary mid-season absence this year), Enrique Fernandez Arbos of Madrid, Bernardino Molinari of Rome, and Composers Igor Stravinsky, Ottorino Respighi, Maurice Ravel, Ernest Bloch. Pointing out that "under the devoted and skillful guidance of its conductor, it has become a seasoned and matured organization of the highest artistic excellence," a resolution prepared by Newton Diehl Baker provided that the Orchestra Company should be "free to investigate and experiment," to insure the Orchestra...
...Grieg; Overture, "Fingal's Cave," by Mendelssohn; Waitz Number 15 by Brahms-Gericke; La Source, Ballet Suite, by Delibes, including Scarf Dance, Love Scene, Variation, and Circassion Dance; Scheherazade, Finale by Rimsky-Korsakov; Large by Handel (Solo violin--J. Theodorowicz, Harp, Organ, and Strings); Dance by Debussy, arranged by Ravel; "Of Thee I Sing" Selection, by Gershwin, "Loin du Bal" by Gillet; "Pomp and Circumstance" by Elgar...
Stokowski's performance and Koussevitzky's were typical. Stokowski's was brilliant, electric. Koussevitzky's had more elegance, more finesse. Ravel's music was equally characteristic. There was a gay, light beginning in which the piano took the lead while the orchestra shimmered all around it, a slow movement lengthily developed and embroidered, a quick finale discreetly syncopated. All of it was the glittering, impersonal kind of music that people have come to associate with the Ravel so notedly fastidious about his neckties, his pastries, his home-grown hot-house flowers. Bostonians liked the soloing...