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What Pergolesi did for one century, Chabrier did for the next. An Incomplete Education is the most professional of the productions--again under Schoep--and completely delightful in music, story, staging and orchestral playing. The plot concerns a young man on his wedding night, whose troubles are due more to ignorance than lack of cooperation by his bride. The cast was excellent: Elaine Freybler was a coy but charming bride, Robert Corbright was a properly backward bridegroom, and Ronald Gerbrands added spice as the tutor. This is a piece that shouldn't be missed...
...Chabrier: Seven Pieces for Piano (Ginette Doyen; Westminster). Fiery performances of music that is attractive enough for more frequent hearings than it gets. Composed in 1860 and 1891, some pieces have a fine Spanish flavor and a few French flourishes as well...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Schuman's American Festival Overture; McDonald's Santa Fe Trail; Walton's Façade suites; Chabrier's España. Conductor: Izler Solomon...
...from your own, or some other nation's, storehouse of folk music is an old composer's trick. Dvorak and Puccini used U.S. tunes. Tchaikovsky not only reworked Russia's own Song of the Volga Boatmen but borrowed a bar or two from Italian music. Ravel, Chabrier and Rimsky-Korsakov took from the Spanish; Aaron Copland from the Mexicans. Last week the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. decided to work each other's musical gold mines officially...
...Chabrier: Trois Valses Romantiques (Robert and Gaby Casadesus on two pianos; Columbia; 4 sides). Pre-Vichy elegance and wit, glitteringly played by a Frenchman and his wife, an ex-pupil...