Articles on Symphonic Poems, Including - An American in Paris, Ma Vlast, the Swan of Tuonela, Night on Bald Mountain, Finlandia, Danse Macabre (Saint-Saans), Romeo and Juliet (Tchaikovsky), Francesca Da Rimini (Tchaikovsky) (Paperback)

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