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...Russian, the Rumanian and the Mexican will come for two weeks each. Igor Stravinsky will undoubtedly concentrate on his own music which others can make sound better than he does. Georges Enesco, mentor of Yehudi Menuhin, is also best known as a composer. Mexico's Carlos...
...Igor Stravinsky, a present-day Russian composer who has been inspired by Rimsky-Korsakov, dedicated to the Boston Symphony Orchestra on its fiftieth anniversary a work entitled Symphony of Psalms. This is to be performed again at this week's concerts with the Cecilia Society as the chorus. As a text, Stravinsky has taken three of the Psalms and scored them for orchestra (without violins and violas) and mixed chorus; there are three movements, the second of which is in the form of a fugue. Here as always, Stravinsky's vigorous rhythms are very much present and give the work...
RUSSIAN SOMERSAULT - Igor Schwezoff -Harper ($3.50). The head of a ballet school in Amsterdam tells of his life in Russia during the Revolution and after. Son of an English-Russian mother and a German-Russian father, Dancer Schwezoff had to perfect his plies between visits from the police. Written with little art, Russian Somersault won the $5,000 Hoder & Stoughton autobiography prize in England...
...addition to fine old standbys which include the magnificence of a Bach cantata and the vigour of English sea chanties, there are to be sung two new compositions, one by Igor Markevitch, and the other by Randall Thompson '20. Markevitch is a young Russian now resident in Paris whose only vocal work, the "Cantate", is to be performed in part by the Glee Club. The other modernist, Randall Thompson, is a Harvard graduate and recent lecturer in these parts, whose latest composition, "The Peaceable Kingdom", in receiving its initial performance by the joint chorus on Tuesday evening...
Feature of the evening will be the first performance in America of Igor Markevitch's "Cantate". The soloist will be Miss Jean McMorran...