Tuesday sees the opening of the Tschaikowsky Festival at the Lyceum Theatre and it will be the big night, every effort being made to ensure that it will be a real gala performance. Ca-operating with Maestro Paci on the first evening will be many of Shanghai's most famous soloists, including the four distinguished Russian guest artistes Zakharoff, Shushlin, Havsky and Ullstein.
The programme will open with the famous quartet in "D" major that has not been heard in Shanghai for many years.
Among the other numbers, V. Havsky will play the Variations in "F" major for the piano, and V. Shushlin will sing some five or six of Tschaikowsky's best known songs, accompanied at the piano by Maestro Paci himself. Then will follow the beautiful trio in "A" minor in which Prof. Zakharoff at the piano will be
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