Walter Piston: Suite From the Incredible Flutist (Boston "Pops" Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler conducting; Victor: four sides). Newly thawed from the Kulturbolschewist morgue, Harvard's Composer Piston kicks up his heels in one of the deftest, most scintillant ballet scores ever penned by a U. S. composer.
Jaromir Weinberger: Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree (Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia: four sides). An English pseudo-folk song made famous when King George VI sang it at a boys' camp (TIME, Oct. 23), Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree was really written by old-fashioned British Composer William Sterndale Bennett. The spirited, polka-dotted variations on it by Czech...
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