Word: scherzo
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...operas that he trusted to keep him before the public while the great tetralogy was in its slow making. The Ring's music was written chronologically. Its design is like a symphony with Rheingold corresponding to an introductory first movement; Walkure to a tender andante; Siegfried to a scherzo and Die Gotterdammerung to a great finale. The four operas take 15 hours to give...
TODAY IC Captain, MarchSousa Sicillian Vespers, Overture Verdi Liobestraum Liszt-Herbert Borodin, Ballet N. Tcherepnin Largo Handel Dio Fiedermaus, Overture Strauss TOMORROW Carmen, Prelude Bizet A Midsummer Night's Dream, Scherzo Mendelssohn The Doluge, Prelude Saint-Saens Ballet of the Hours, Cloconda Ponchielli Artists' Life, Waltz Strauss Bolero Ravel
...better showman. He is more given to swaying over the keyboard, to making his crescendoes look mighty as well as sounding so. He is not above making occasional impromptu speeches or working for a laugh as he did last week with the titivating run in Arensky's Scherzo. Pianist Pattison's contribution is just as important but he makes it more quietly, focuses more on his piano...
...Scherzo Vivace...
Prokofiev's Classical Symphony in D Major and the Scherzo and March from his opera The Love for Three Oranges (Victor, 2 records, $2 each)-Prokofiev's fast-stepping rhythms played with exhilarating, almost whirlwind effect by Conductor Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony...