The New World Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Raymond Thomas, has gathered together in this album a variety of favorite concert pieces. These works range from light, flippant humor to the haunting dreamland of fantasy. A gay tongue-in-cheek tour-de-force is Robert McBride’s Side Show. Throughout this delightful composition we hear a pseudo-oriental theme usually associated with a honky-tonk carnival. The music is as gaudy as the side-show attractions, and it takes on the character of a witty panoramic caricature of carnival life. In contrast to this mock-oriental music is a truer picture of oriental exoticism as painted by Modest Moussorgsky (1839-1881) in The Break Of Day from his opera ‘Khovantchina.’ The composer’s use of quiet and subtle dissonance and prolonged unresolved chords add excitement to his picturesque impression of sunrise. Another entrancing feature of this recording is the light gaiety of Johann Strauss’ (1825-1899) immortal Wine, Women And Song. This gaily infectious and always popular wal