Music: Show Boat in Cleveland

In other days, it would have been called Gems from Show Boat. Ol' Man River rolled in on the violas and bass clarinet.

A muted-trumpet statement of Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man led into a tricky blues section: four saxophones playing over pizzicato plunk-plunks in the strings. The wow-finale brought back Ol' Man River for full symphony orchestra plus saxo phones, harmonica, banjo, guitar, organ, glockenspiel, tom-toms, bones, vibraphone, xylophone.

Shock-haired, Polish-American Artur Rodzinski, conducting the Cleveland Orchestra, last week had his packjammed audience humming with him. Everybody knew the music —...

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