Word: godunov
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Triumph & Tension. A more impressive contribution to the Met's new season came later in the week with a Boris Godunov, orchestrated by Dmitry Shostakovich. In its 75-year history, Mussorgsky's roughhewn but powerfully felt work ("I lived on Boris and in Boris," the composer once said) has appeared in several versions, including two by the composer himself and two schmalzier ones by his friend Rimsky-Korsakov. This season the Met decided to try the version scored by Shostakovich in 1940 but never before presented on the U.S. stage. The result is a brassy, full-throated Boris...
Even more impressive to the Russians, at one of their own artistic games, was George London, Canadian-born U.S. bass-baritone, who last week became the first American ever to sing Boris Godunov in Russia. It was, admitted London, "like a Japanese ballplayer being invited to play first base for the Yankees." The negotiations leading to his invitation, said London, almost broke down during the U-2 incident, but, he added wryly, "what was I supposed to do-chicken?" London, who has performed the role often in the U.S. and Europe, had only three days to rehearse with the Bolshoi...
Musically, Ike is nonpartisan. Like Jack Kennedy he enjoys Berlioz (his choice is the Symphonie Fantastique) and Moussorgsky's Boris Godunov. And he agrees with Vice President Nixon on his choice of music from Oklahoma...
...father Joe, the family's No.11 music buff, listens to Beethoven records by the hour), detailed his choice in a long letter written by Wife Jackie: Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun, Ravel's La Valse, Berlioz' overture to Benvenuto Cellini, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, and dances from Borodin's Prince Igor...
...ausanne (May 25-June 22). Now in its sixth year, it is Western Europe's best showcase for little-known Communist talent. Among this year's visitors: the 250-member Belgrade Opera (in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov and Kho-vantchina, Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin), the Budapest Ballet, the Warsaw Symphony...