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...rare paintings and sculpture with the idea that ultimately they would become the property of the people of the United States." His paintings and sculpture, said Mr. Mellon, included valuable purchases from Leningrad's Hermitage Museum, a fact he had long denied. There was also most of the peerless collection of Renaissance statuary collected by the late Gustave Dreyfus, a Frenchman who profited from the Suez Canal only less spectacularly than Mr. Mellon has from his banks, railroads, oil wells and aluminum diggings. Last item listed by Mr. Mellon was the great collection of U. S. historical portraits assembled...
...Philadelphia batons flicked into the air, releasing the music that marked the overture to the 1936-37 season. In Boston, Beacon Hillers, not content merely to clap their gloved hands, stood in deference to Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky who gravely bowed his thanks, peaked the afternoon with a peerless performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
...Preludes to the first and third acts of Lohengrin; Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung; the tender Siegfried Idyll, composed by Wagner as a Christmas serenade for his wife Cosima the year after their son Siegfried was born. The Toscanini performances are peerless, the recordings faithful. First week sales were unparalleled, according to record dealers, since the days of Caruso. From headquarters in Camden. N. J., RCA Victor reported that few other albums have sold so well in a year as Toscanini's did in the first few days after its release...
...witnesses Joan's first military miracle on the banks of the Loire, when the wind shifts so that the French may attack the English by surprise, thus starting the invaders out of the Kingdom and Joan on her way to the fires of martyrdom. As for peerless Actress Cornell, spectators found her full of the youthful fire that danced around her Juliet, approved the added touch of honest rusticity which brought the full flush of credibility to her Joan...
...Published last fortnight were the 32 Beethoven sonatas, edited by Pianist Artur Schnabel, peerless Beethoven interpreter (Simon & Schuster, 2 vol., paperbound $5, clothbound $8). Pianist Schnabel contributes valuable fingering and pedal indications, argues over controversial points in long scholarly footnotes printed in French, German and English. Supplementing such conventional markings as forte, pianissimo or con expressione are Schnabel's own suggestions. Examples: "No hurry, no precipitation," "avoid all restlessness," "serious, somewhat gloomy, always arguing...