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...Spain. Jose Viloria, Madrid streetcar conductor, on a Sunday jaunt to suburban Moncloa, kicked about in a dirt pile on the site of a new university, found a bone, an old dirty pot. When he showed the pot and bone to university authorities, they enthusiastically called a meeting of the board of directors, engaged Professor Hugo Obermaier, archeologist of Central University, to dig more pots. On the streetcar conductor's Sunday picnic site were found coins, wooden kitchen utensils, old pottery, stone knives, a granite grinding mill, skeletons of bulls, goats, birds. Professor Obermaier reported the discoveries...
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 by the Boston Symphony under Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky (Victor, $10)?A magnificent, high-powered reading of the Pathetique in which the Boston strings outdo themselves...
...small orchestras in every German city. U. S. cities should have just such orchestras, he says. But his hope for Indianapolis is higher than that. Said he last week: "The public need not expect a Philadelphia or a Philharmonic Orchestra at first. But give me ten years." Grey-whiskered Conductor Schaefer...
Faust, the transformation scene by Tenor Fernand Ansseau, Basso Marcel Journet and orchestra under Conductor Piero Coppola (Victor, $2.50)?Two famed French-opera singers capably interpret the scene in which Mephistopheles restores Faust to youth...
Spanish Album by the orchestra and chorus of the Brussels Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie under Conductor Maurice Bustin and the Madrid Symphony under Conductor Enrique Fernandez Arbos (Columbia, $10)?Representative music of the Spanish contemporaries de Falla, Breton, Albeniz, Turina. Because of de Falla's impending visit to the U. S. and the exotic interpretations of La Argentina, widest interest will be aroused by the dances from La Vida Breve...