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...Chicago, much-debated Soprano Kirsten Flagstad (did-she-or-did-she-not-collaborate?) made her postwar operatic debut in Tristan und Isolde, sang them into the aisles, got a blizzard of bravos and cheers, eleven curtain calls, not a tomato from audience or critics...
Included on the program are Serenata (1930) of Casella; Kirchenkantate no. 189. "Meine Seele unhint und preist," by Bach with tenor Yves Tinayre, as soloist: Divertimento (1946) by Piston; Serenado a Angelique (1945) by Honegger...
...understandable horror of his own bamboo-jointed name: Horst Rüdiger Karl August Ernst Georg Cristoph Fabious von Gugel Brandt und Dippolsdorf. True, it showed his patrician lineage, but it would never squeeze into a corner of his surrealist canvases. So he reduced it to plain Rolf Gugel. Plain Rolf's name is being heard often these days in Germany...
Boston Symphony Esplanade Concert (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). The Frescobaldi-Kindler Toccata, Wagner's Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, Liszt's Concerto in E-Flat, Delibes' Procession of Bacchus from Sylvia. Conductor: Arthur Fiedler...
...Time. It was the best-selling jazz record of 1945.* Taking Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 apart, he extracted Ever and Forever from the first movement, and Full Moon and Empty Arms from the third. He rewrote the Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and called it Time Stands Still. He converted Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf into Dingbat the Singing Cat and is now waiting for When I Write My Song (from Saint-Saens' aria My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice) to make the Hit Parade. Rimsky-Korsakov's Hymn...