Felice Elefantine, Soloiste of the evening
I. Gastronomic Symphony—Kovik-Bordunov
| (a) | Allegretti |
| (b) | Pistachio |
| (c) | Chianti |
| (d) | Risotto, con aglio |
II. Larghetto Culmbacher
III. Aria from "Il Campanile" Gondola
(Signorina Elefantine)
(The Hardwood Piano is used)
CRITICAL COMMENTS ON THE NUMBERS
I. Gastronomic Symphony. It is not certain when Ptior Kovik-Bordunov was born. His parents, being thrifty peasants, put him in a basket and left him on the steppes of Russia. Adopted by a Russian Princess, named Caviar Vodka, he was raised as if he had been her own dog. His early musical inclination was so pronounced that he was sent to the Warsaw Conservatory, where he served three terms. Soon after being released from this institution he wrote "Samovar," the opera that made him famous. "Samovar" so pleased the Czar that young Bordunov was given a pension and a bath. But alas! either his sudden success or the bath so affected his mind, that from that time on the authorities were obliged to keep him in confinement. The above symphony was written on the walls of his cell, from which it was transcribed after his suicide. It depicts the blight of all his hopes, the sorrows of Russia, the drowning of his fiancée, the height of the steppes, and the agonies of indigestion.