I love having the National Anthem at the opening of each thread. Thank you!
I fell asleep and, when I woke up, I discovered I was lost in Festival.
Sounds like the title of an album from the Sixties.
Glad to post. It's a great version. Sergei used to open his recitals with his arrangement.
He got out of Bolshevik Russia just in time. He officially became an American citizen just weeks before his death from cancer in 1943. It was his final way of giving the finger to Stalin.