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...available talents range from a jokester butler who will keep a party alive by putting his thumb in the soup, to a concert 'cellist...
Bloch: Schelomo (Emanuel Feuermann, cellist, with Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra; Victor: 5 sides). In Schelomo (Hebrew for Solomon), musical Zionist Ernest Bloch rhapsodizes and wails, perhaps of worldly vanities, perhaps of breasts like roes and necks like ivory: there is no descriptive program. Cellist Feuermann plays eloquently...
...audience were disgusted, and-being Brazilian-showed it. Smarting under their boos and hoots, the conductor of the Italian opera troupe stamped out of the theatre in Rio de Janeiro. To carry on the performance, the orchestra as one man boosted a 19109-year-old cellist to the conductor's stand. He led his men through the whole opera (Aida) from memory. That performance, 54 years ago, was Conductor Arturo Toscanini's first. Last week white-haired Maestro Toscanini made ready to play his first return engagement in Rio. With the NBC Symphony he sailed on a South...
Masterminds of the New Friends are Cellist Alan Shulman, who does the arrangements and has written two original pieces for the group (High Voltage, Mood in Question), and his brother Sylvan, a violinist who is probably the first to jive on wax with a $15,000 Stradivarius (borrowed). Known around NBC as "Toscanini's hep cats," the New Friends do not know how "The Old Man" likes their recordings, which were sent to him last Christmas. Toscanini made no comment, but his cats suspect that he does not mind...
Alfred Wallenstein, sometime concert cellist, has been musical director of Newark, N. J.'s station WOR (Mutual network) for five years. Long ago he disabused the station's management of their theory that Bach was too high-brow for their listeners; long ago he began putting new compositions on the air. Last week Director Wallenstein for the 300th time gave a work its radio debut...