Word: wieniawski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tonight We Sing is at its slickly Technicolored best when it makes music. As Russian Ballerina Anna Pavlova, Toumanova dances the famed Dying Swan. As noted Belgian Violinist Eugéne Ysaÿe, Isaac Stern plays a Wieniawski Concerto and Sarasate's Ziegeunerweisen. As Basso Feodor Chaliapin, Ezio Pinza, in a blond wig, swaggers off with the show by giving a lustily humorous performance and singing snatches from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Gounod's Faust, and a chorus of The Volga Boatman. These latter-day artists offer an earnest approximation of the originals. David Wayne, using...