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Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, Igor Stravinsky conducting; Columbia, 7 sides). At 64, Stravinsky has rewritten one of his best earlier works. In this 1946 version, his third reworking, Composer Stravinsky adds incidental passages and restores the Adagio and Scherzo of the first 1910 try. The bird's plumage is a little fancier, but it flies no better. Performance: fair...
...Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's least known operas is Tsar Saltan. A skip-along scherzo in its second act has become one of the inevitable pieces in any violinist's repertory: Flight of the Bumblebee. Last week Rimsky-Korsakov's little earsore was a strong jukebox nickel-puller, helped by a steady left-hand beat, and a new name: Bumble Boogie...
...rays.* A ray of red, for example, has about 477,000,000,000 vibrations per second. Its tonal equivalent, to Belmont, is the key of C. Similarly, the key of D is orange; E, yellow; F, yellow-green, etc. Thus, a dirge is painted in blues and violets, a scherzo in reds and oranges. For contrapuntal effects, color is simply played against color...
...Captain! My Captain!) by Walter Damrosch. None ever caught on. And last week Cincinnati critics had their doubts after listening to Weinberger's symphony, given by Eugene Goossens and the Cincinnati Symphony. Weinberger plunged heavily into Deep River, splashing the spiritual not only in his "heroic scherzo" but also in a final rondo. The other movements were subtitled "6 Captain! My Captain!" and "The Hand on the Plough." Innocently Czech Weinberger worked in his King Charles's head-a fugue. But no polka...
Composer Bennett began his symphony with conventional jubilant trumpetings. That was "The Dodgers Win." "The Dodgers Lose" was a dirge, almost Oriental in its luxurious grief. The scherzo of the symphony opened with plaintive bassoon bleats: President MacPhail offering Cleveland the Brooklyn Bridge and Prospect Park in trade for Pitcher Bob Feller. Thudding minor chords were Cleveland's repeated "No." The symphony ended with "Red" Barber himself, the Dodgers' own radio announcer, rattling off an account of a ninth-inning rally against the Giants, a home run, and victory...