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Shostakovich: Violin Concerto, Opus 99 (David Oistrakh; New York Philharmonic-Symphony, conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos; Columbia). The finest moments of Soviet Violinist Oistrakh's recent visit to the U.S. (TiME, Jan. 9) sound even better on records. Reason: in this concerto, the violin's rhythm often runs against that of the orchestra; in a large hall with a full orchestra, the violin part is sometimes buried, but studio technicians, who can magnify small sounds, restore the balance...
ALTHOUGH the baffling, dedicated, often tormented painters of the late 19th century have inspired one Hollywood opus after another, the celluloid vision has proved no more revealing than the dated contemporary photographs. This month at Chicago's Art Institute, a traveling exhibition of Toulouse-Lautrec will offer a fresh look at that tempestuous age, peopled by the foppish, witty, dwarf-legged chronicler of Montmartre and his painter friends Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh. There, done with quick, sure strokes, is the record not only of what Toulouse-Lautrec saw as he grappled with the living instant...
...slightly obsolete figure." At these words Robert Taylor recoils. It is startling enough for a 44-year-old matinee idol to hear himself described like an overage destroyer; but to be addressed in literate and amusing English smack-dab in the middle of a Hollywood thud-and-blunder opus is a shock almost as sharp as seeing Sir Walter Scott in the old Stut 'n' Tup on Beverly Boulevard...
...comic novels ever written in English. None of Lewis' later novels-even The Revenge for Love, The Apes of God, The Childermass-has ousted Tarr from first place, but each displays uniquely the mingled anger, intellectual probity and hair-raising humor that are the stamp of a Lewis opus. What is most curious and most defective about all these novels is that Lewis, archapostle of gardeners and barbers, is himself in capable of giving his often cumbersome style a well-trimmed look...
...Moore: "Almost every comedian starts out by being too small or too fat to be an athlete and, to compensate, he becomes the class clown." Kathleen Winsor, whose Forever Amber has sold 3,000,000 copies, sat primly on a white bearskin and explained that in putting together her opus she had spent 1,303 hours in reading, 1,380 hours in indexing, and 1,284 hours in writing. She also felt that, in writing a historical novel, "it is a very good thing to have a knowledge of history." Author Winsor also had a sad reflective word on critics...