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Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Dame Myra Hess, in her first U.S. radio concert since 1939, plays her own arrangement of Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, and the Allegro of Mozart's Concerto No. 23 in A Major...
...heart of wartime London, on Trafalgar Square, there was one place where you could hear music every weekday: the National Gallery. In noontime concerts there Pianist Myra Hess provided a music-filled haven for weary, worried war workers, fighting men and blitzed citizens. By war's end she had sold 800,000 tickets - at a shilling a head - to 1,698 concerts, 147 of which she played herself. King George made Myra Hess a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for it. She was even prouder of the fact that "taxi drivers learned to love Mozart...
Last week in Manhattan, 56-year-old Dame Myra Hess, greatest of all contemporary women pianists, played her first U.S. recital in 7½ years. The concert had been sold out weeks in advance. In the audience, earnest young piano students used scores to follow her program of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Manhattan's concertgoers found her style cool, careful and womanly: a grateful contrast to some of the pedal pounding and frantic gymnastics that passes for virtuosity these days...
...larger Adelphi Theater he has had to turn away crowds. Last week's show at the Adelphi sold better than the last time the London Philharmonic played there. To the first session Gross invited a handful of notables to come and hear for themselves. Sir Adrian Boult, Pianist Myra Hess and Composer Benjamin Britten sent regrets, but Mrs. Anthony Eden came, and wrote a fan letter. Tenor Richard Tauber stuck it out for two hours, then said politely: "This is ... a complete change from the music to which I am accustomed...
Norman Armour (of the Princeton, not the meat-packing Armours) had spent a good part of his 29-year career in trouble spots. As a diplomatic fledgling, he went through the Red Revolution in Leningrad, where he met a Russian princess, Myra Koudacheff, got her safely out of the country, and later married her. In Argentina, from 1939 until his recall, he rode the ups & downs of U.S. prestige like a veteran gaucho. In the years between, he was in Tokyo at the time of the Nanking incident, helped get the U.S. Marines out of Haiti, survived Chile...