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Title: Enjoyable Arrangements by Hershy Kay
Review: In this album Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops present us with several pieces of ballet music with a distinctively American flavor, starting with Hershy Kay's transformation of music by John Philip Sousa and Louis Moreau Gottschalk into, respectively, Stars & Stripes and Cakewalk. Cakewalk is an especially enjoyable romp -- it's delightful to hear many of Gottschalk's keyboard pieces rendered for full orchestra. Beyond these two gems, which I don't know are available elsewhere in other performances, there are also excerpts from Morton Gould's interplay and the Hoedown from Copland's Rodeo, but I was especially captured by the ensemble's performance of the Galop, Waltz and Danzon from Leonard Bernstein's Fancy Free. Fun all the way around.
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