{"id":664,"date":"2010-07-08T17:50:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T21:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=664"},"modified":"2011-10-11T00:36:36","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T04:36:36","slug":"pops-in-the-yukon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=664","title":{"rendered":"Pops in the Yukon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/strong>by Sedgwick Clark<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday night I’ll be dog sledding with Sergeant Preston of the Yukon!<\/p>\n

Gawd, does that<\/em> date me. How many of my loyal readers have the vaguest notion of what I speak? The title music for this mid-’50s TV show was the Overture to Donna Diana<\/em> by Emil Nikolaus von Rezni\u010dek. <\/em>True, the Sarge couldn’t quite compete with the Lone Ranger, whose show was forever associated with Rossini’s William Tell<\/em> Overture, but once heard, it was never forgotten.<\/p>\n

Bramwell Tovey will open the final program of his New York Philharmonic post-subscription Summertime Classics series (July 8, 9, and 10) with Donna Diana<\/em>, and I was delighted to read Steve Smith’s review of the Phil’s penultimate program in today’s Times<\/em>, asking “why these works don’t play a bigger role in the Philharmonic’s standard routine.” Tovey has been putting together enjoyable programs since the series began in 2004\u2014just as Andr\u00e9 Kostelanetz used to do for the orchestra’s Promenade concerts\u2014and most of the pieces would be just what the doctor ordered to enliven the usual dour subscription offerings. Seriously, can anyone imagine a frothier opening to a concert than Chabrier’s Espa\u00f1a<\/em>? In 2007, Franz Welser-M\u00f6st led the Cleveland Orchestra in Supp\u00e9’s Light Cavalry<\/em> Overture at Carnegie Hall’s opening-night concert, and tomorrow night, Tovey will lead it in Avery Fisher Hall.<\/p>\n

I can’t wait.<\/p>\n