I was introduced to this 1971 album circa 1975 by my musical-genius friend from high school, Roger Price.
01 - Russian Sailor's Dance, from The Red Poppy - Glière
02 - Procession of the Sardar, from Two Caucasian Sketches, Op. 10 - Ippolitov-Ivanov
03 - Polovtsian Dances, from Prince Igor - Borodin
04 - The Moldau, from My Fatherland - Smetana
05 - Trepak, from The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a - Tchaikovsky
06 - Can-Can, from Orpheus in the Underworld Overture - Offenbach
07 - The Miller's Dance, from The Three Cornered Hat, Suite No. 2 - Falla
08 - The Ride of the Valkyries, from Die Walküre - Wagner
09 - Danse Macabre, Op. 40 - Saint-Saëns
10 - Somewhere, from West Side Story - Bernstein
11 - William Tell Overture - Finale - Rossini
This is a fine little anthology of familiar classical tunes. Of special emotive power is the final cut. If you're familiar with the entire overture, you can *almost* tell where the Columbia techs did a quick fade-in from the quiet pastoral sounds of flute and oboe, before the blaring trumpet takes over and leads us to Lone Ranger land.
Yes, this final, frenetic clash of musical forces led my friend Roger and his roommate Tony Hutchinson to mime a wild, Keystone Kops-like duke-it-out (only pretending) brawl across several dorm rooms, bouncing off beds and rebounding effortlessly from walls. At the end, both looked at each other in victory ... only to collapse, in unison.
See you on Monday, music lovers!
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