Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...vernal equinox can be taken as an infallible sign of the approach of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo to Boston. Through the years the group has almost earned honorary custody of several ballet standbys. Three of these--"Swan Lake," "The Nutcracker," and "Scheherazade" --have been placed on one program which will be repeated two or three times during the group's Boston stand...
...program consisted of nine scheduled pieces and seven extras. They ran in seriousness from a brassy Overture to Tannhauser to Selections from Kiss Me Kate. Curiously enough, the most popular number by far was an extra entitled Classical Jute Box. This consisted of a little Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Liszt, and Put Another Nickel In all played more or less simultaneously. It is always amazing how the members of this orchestra can carry on a rigorous concert schedule all winter, change their name and style of playing two days after the Symphony season ends, and then, begin the nightly and unrehearsed Pops...
...long range program of "mass-type" education, with intermediate activities in the nature of cooperation with the proper enforcement authorities: resort to the "expose" type of publicity and the development of organized services for community civic groups and large industrial employers, faced with current organized gambling problems, appear to be the steps necessary for ultimate correction of the existing situation...
Bach's often heard Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 opened the program. It was a pleasure to listen to this essentially chamber piece played in a relatively small room by a small group as Bach originally wrote it. Earl Ravenal handled the extremely difficult solo violin passage with great dexterity...
Magnificent as it was, the Brahms by no means obliterated Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony, the other item on the program. The work presents such a succession of beauties that it is impossible to absorb them all at once. This performance revealed new ones, testifying again to the versitility of Mr. Munch and not incidently to the genius of Beethoven...