Word: prokofiev
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stadium Concerts (Wed. 9 p.m., CBS). Saint-Saens, Hindemith and Prokofiev...
Last summer, Director Max Leavitt of the Lemonade Opera Company, who in three years had dug up such old and new operas as Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona and Prokofiev's The Duenna (TIME, June 14, 1948), was scratching his head for a surprise for his 1949 season. A friend told him about Haydn's 172-year-old dramma giocoso II Mondo della Luna (The World of the Moon), wherein a charlatan astronomer and some frolicsome servants persuade a fat, foolish father to bless the marriage of his daughter to a poet by taking...
...member: "You wait four hours at the opera for the Liebestod; we give it to them right off the bat.") And when the four boys had romped cleanly and lightly through their special arrangements of such numbers as Schubert's Impromptu in B-flat Major, the finale of Prokofiev's Classical Symphony, the first movement of Bach's Concerto in D Minor and some Chopin études -one to show that four pianos can ripple as fast as one-the near-sellout audience thumped their hands for more...
...Prokofiev: Classical Symphony (L'Or-chestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Charles Munch conducting; English Decca, 4 sides). Conductor Münch often gallops through music that demands a more becoming pace; here, where they are not needed, he too often wears hobbles. Recording: excellent...
Debussy, Ravel, Prokofiev. Beating time with the warmth and expression of a railroad semaphore, he did his best, but the music floated drearily out into the happy din in a dull monochrome of sound...