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...Budapest-born George Szell took up Cleveland's baton six years ago on one condition: his board of directors must give him "the means of making this orchestra second to none." Since then, he has increased the orchestra's size from 82 to 96, and hired a score or so of musicians (among them Concertmaster Josef Gingold from Detroit) from other organizations. Today, Conductor Szell is content: the Cleveland personnel is "as good as any conductor could wish for." With a whopping $5,000,000 endowment and willing contributors to the annual deficit drive (this year...
...Beethoven boom continues. Last year saw the completion of two separate sets of his nine symphonies, all 32 of his piano sonatas. Last week three more complete cycles were on the market: all 16 String Quartets, played by the Budapest Quartet for Columbia (12 LPs) and by the Pascal Quartet for Concert Hall (13 LPs), and all ten Violin Sonatas (five LPs), by Joseph Fuchs and Artur Balsam for Decca...
Czechoslovakia's 18,000 Jews, all that remained after Nazi occupation and postwar emigration, were reported to be alarmed. There were indications, also, that Prague-style purges might spread to other satellites. In Budapest, a Communist newspaper proclaimed that "Zionism" was rampant in Hungary, and called for action against it. This would take some doing, since Hungary's Communist Dictator Matyas Rakosi and his two chief lieutenants are Jews...
...Budapest Quartet finally gave Cambridge a break last night. For many seasons it had confined itself to standard concert fare whenever it performed in this area. This may be a good thing, but hearing only acknowledged master-pieces for long periods is like going out with the same girl all the time: you begin to wonder. This year the Quartet played not one, but two novelties, and the concert, while not exactly earth-shaking, was pleasant and relaxing...
These staffers (assigned to what purports to be the Paris office of the New York Herald Tribune's European edition) alternate between playing footie with one another and playing hide & seek with a scurvy group of Iron Curtain spies. Reporter Andrews, assigned to the Budapest beat, is jailed, drugged and tortured by Hungarian heavies. An elusive bit of microfilm evidence turns up just in time for a happy ending...