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Debussy: Nocturnes (Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor: 8 sides). First complete U. S. recording of a shimmering Impressionist masterpiece. Conductor Stokowski gives it more fire than shimmer. Victor sound engineers record it magnificently...
...trouble started last November with the death of hawk-faced Conductor Artur Bodanzky, long the Metropolitan's principal Wagner conductor (TIME...
Last week in Baltimore Brazilian Pianist Guiomar Novaěs and Conductor Hans Kindler's National Symphony gave one of Villa-Lobos' biggest works its first U. S. hearing. Called Momo Precoce (The Young Momus) after the ancient Greek god of ridicule, the composition depicted the sights & sounds of Brazil's annual, three-day-long "Children's Carnival." After listening to its naïve, childlike jingle themes, half-focused in a turbulent hubbub of flashy orchestration, Baltimoreans rated it one of the most bumptiously original pieces they had heard in a long time...
...next concert in the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Sanders Theatre series will come on Thursday evening. Nikolai Malko, a Russian who has been active in Russia and the Scandinavian countries as a conductor and teacher, will conduct the orchestra in a rather unusual program consisting of Rossini's Overture to "la Gazza Ladra," the First Symphony of Shostakovitch, Max Reger's Variations on a Theme of Mozart, and Tchaikovsky's "Capriccio Italien." The inclusion of both the Rossini and the Tchaikovsky makes the program as a whole rather light. We are not acquainted with the Reger composition, but we hope...
...surprisingly, in his book, Quiz Champion Levant slips on many a fact. Sample boners: that Leopold Stokowski taught the New York Philharmonic-Symphony to play Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps in 1930 (famed German Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler had done it five years before); that Harpo Marx tunes his harp backwards (Harpo's tuning, though unorthodox, is not backwards); that Toscanini cannot see the men in his orchestra (Toscanini, farsighted, can see quite well beyond six feet...