Talk:Sadko (opera)/Archive 1

Archive 1

Adaptations

    I've removed

The Boston Pops Orchestra conducted by Arthur Fiedler recorded "Song of India" in New York City on July 1, 1935. It was released by Victor Records as catalogue number 4303.

bcz the sort of adjustments in orchestral section size that are typical in preparing a work do not constitute "adaptations", and nothing here even hints whether the lyrics were sung or not, nor whether the singer was already doubled by one or more instruments in the opera, nor whether any substitution of another instrument for the voice of the soloist was done by Rimsky, or specified by him to an assistant ("I told you, violas and a flute, you know how to do this shit, so go do your job and stop bothering me!"), or a later arranger, or Fiedler. In the absence of contrary evidence from qualified sources, a recording like this is no more than another performance (let alone one notable enuf even for the performance history).
    As to

The Song of the Indian Guest was arranged by Tommy Dorsey and made into a famous 1937 recording called Song of India.

my PoV may be a little distorted: i already saved a revised version of the "Principal Arias and Numbers" section, and created a link to the section from the Dab (-- the one that is what this removed material was improperly linked to). I guess i don't have a stronger reason than

_ _ Dorsey not having adapted the whole work that is the topic, and

_ _ it taking fewer words to clarify the wordings of the titles where i covered it

for preferring mention where i had already corrected it before noticing the second mention. But there's no justification for two disconnected sentences to mention the Dorsey arrangement within this one article; if you don't like my my location, take out that mention and add one in "Adaptations". (As long as it's not done by a jazz hammer who thinks the whole world is a jazz nail -- the two versions on the accompanying article and the one in the Dab all sounded like such an editor wrote them, with the nuance that Dorsey made an insignificant aria famous, or -- clearly false -- that all awareness of the title "Song of India" is due to Dorsey.)
    BTW, besides the effect on the coherence of the article as a whole of splitting the mentions between two sections, a Dab entry lk'g from the Song of India Dab to coverage of the Dorsey sense can't serve users by going to This Is Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Vol. 1, which offers only "[Track] 4. Song of India[,] [c]omposed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov[,] 3:06" as it can here -- as long as all the info is adjacent. In case the dust is ready to settle, i'm creating a Dab entry targeting Sadko (opera)#Dorsey, and the anchor satisfying it in Sadko (opera)#Principal Arias and Numbers can be moved if the mentions are moved -- again, as long as they are kept together. Hopefully the unusual measure of having two links from the same Dab into (different points in) the same article will make sense to other Dab editors.
--Jerzy•t 00:41, 13 July 2010 (UTC)