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Rimsky-Korsakov's much-played Flight of the Bumble Bee comes from an opera, Tsar Saltan, little played outside of Russia. At the opera's climax the son of Tsar Saltan turns into a bumblebee, stings two wicked women, eludes pursuing courtiers. Last week a Manhattan audience screamed and yowled with delight at this tale. The opera, retitled The Bumble Bee Prince, was put on by a non-commercial organization called Junior Programs, Inc. The audience: 1,600 school children, aged 5 to 15 (700 more were turned away). Admission...
...following program will be given at the Pops tonight: Overture to "Rienal" Wagner "L' Arlesienne" Suite No. 1 Bizet Prejude Minuet Adagietto Carillon Songs by James R. Houghton (Baritone) a. "Wanderlied" Schumann b. The House by the Side of the Road Gulesian "Tsar Saltan," Suite Rimsky-Korsakov "The Moldau," Symphonic Poem Smetana Spauish Rhapsody Ravel Ballet of the Hours, "La Gioconda" Ponchielli Intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagni "Pomp and Circumstance" Elgar
This afternoon and tomorrow evening in Symphony Hall, the third pair of concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting. The programme traverses a Concerto for Orchestra by P. E. Bach, Moussorgaky's Prelude to "Khoranochina", a Scherzo, "The Flight of the Bumble Bee" from "Tsar Saltan," Prokovier's Seythian Suite and Brahm's Fourth Symphony...