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Beethoven: Grosse Fugue, Op. 133 (Adolf Busch and his Chamber Players; Columbia; 4 sides). A puzzler even to musical savants of the 1820s, the granite-surfaced "grand fugue" which Beethoven composed as a finale to his String Quartet B Flat so irritated audiences that his publisher persuaded him to write a simpler finale, issue his pet fugue separately. Now recognized as a titan among fugues, it comes to life eloquently, pulsingly in the first album of Violinist Adolf Busch's reorganized chamber musicians, who made their U.S. debut earlier this year (TIME, March...
...Barber of Seville (Charles L. Wagner Production, with Hilde Reggiani, Bruno Landi, Carlos Ramirez, Lorenzo Alvary, John Gurney and other artists, conducted by Giuseppe Bamboschek; Victor; 16 sides). This album is a condensed version (excerpts pieced together to make up a half-length score) sung by a second-string cast (virtually the same company which gave 65 Barbers on tour in two autumn seasons). But the excerpts are expertly chosen, skillfully welded; the singing is good; the performance brightly paced; the recording excellent. Net effect: highly satisfactory...
Both lineups are identical with those named before the New Haven jaunt. Last minute sicknesses altered the starting Harvard nine, but except for the possibility that Fitzgibbons will not have had enough practice to play, Coach Floyd Stahl will start his first string. VARSITY LINEUPS HARVARD YALE O'Donnell, cf ss, Carton Waldstein, p p, Harrison Harvey, 2b 1b, Whelan Fitzgibbons, 1b rf, Goodspeed Barnes, rf 3b, Heath Callanan, c 2b, Witt Clay, lf lf, Walsh Drake, ss cf, Pope Whittemore, 3b c, White
...Whittemore set the rally off to a weak but effective start when he got a life on the Eli third-string third-sacker's low throw to first. Cleo O'Donnell twice failed with sacrifice bunts, then punched his fourth single to short left. Both advanced on Berg's bunt, and Whittemore came home after Bart Harvey's long fly to left field. Bull Barnes followed with another outfield single to drive in O'Donnell, and that was the ball game...
...cries Expert Kiralfy. "It is a second prime front. Wishfulness cannot change this unquestionable definition, but military science can convert it into a victorious front." Northward-Ho. How? Says Author Kiralfy: "There is a homely saying to the effect that if the harness breaks and no other is available, string should be used. . . . Many harnesses have been broken, so much string will have to be used." The particular string with which Kiralfy would bend his bow is an Allied invasion of Japan from the half-Russian island of Sakhalin. Sakhalin is almost within firing distance of the northern Japanese island...