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Chopin: Chopin (Pianist Vladimir Horowitz; RCA); Concert Favorites (Pianist Vladimir Horowitz; RCA). Released for Horowitz's golden jubilee year, both records are selections from mono collections compiled over three decades. Chopin's demanding B-flat-minor sonata, a Horowitz signature, is here. The Favorites album shows Horowitz's quieter side, with such masterly but unpretentious works as Scarlatti's Sonata in E-Major and Mendelssohn's Variations Sérieuses. Even without stereo tracking, the playing here is what Horowitz fans expect: the best...
...come into fashion. Margaux Hemingway and Lauren Hutton have restrictive but enormously profitable contracts. Margaux is reportedly receiving $1 million over five years to work exclusively for Faberge, while Hutton is getting $500,000 over two years from Revlon. Another agency owner, the Hungarian who calls himself Zoli, in mono-moniker fashion, sees daily fees escalating still further. Says he: "I doubt whether Hutton would step in front of a camera for less than $5,000 a day" when she finishes her Revlon contract. "Cheryl Tiegs is getting to that point too. People with faces that are well known...
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-Minor. (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conductor, Arthur Rubinstein pianist, RCA.) This performance, recorded in mono in 1954. remains the pianist's grandest reading of the work, and Reiner's surging accompaniment turns it into the most satisfying D-Minor on records. The new reissue is not in mono or in phony stereo, however. Back in 1954, four years before the advent of stereo, RCA was already experimenting with the technique, and taped this performance simultaneously but separately in stereo. The results can stand comparison with many of today...
Catch severe mono from a friend and fall into a coma for a month...
...customarily pack the slopes at Heavenly Valley, but this year there are fewer than 1,000. At nearby Squaw Valley, the management has cut its staff to a mere 20 employees, v. the normal 700. So many of California's lodges have closed that unemployment rolls in Mono County have reached 20%, and applications for food stamps are running so high that the county welfare office had to call for emergency clerical help from Sacramento...