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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Fugue (the Radio Orchestra, Beromunster, Switzerland, Herman Scherchen conducting; London FFRR, 6 sides LP). Bach died before he finished this last testament, and before he had noted down just what instrument or instruments should play it. Hence it is variously performed on the organ, by string quartet, and, as here, by a small orchestra. This performance is clear and calm, but short of vitality and vigor. Recording: excellent...
Bartok: Divertimento for Strings (string orchestra conducted by Tibor Serly; Bartok Recording Studio; 2 sides LP). Composed in the same period (1936-39) as the Music for Strings, Celeste and Percussion and the Violin Concerto, this music stands with them among Bartok's best. Performance and recording: excellent...
Most of the sculptures selected by the Whitney were abstract concoctions of spikes, bumps, lumps, bars and bits of string, and most were dreadful. But Robert Howard's slim pear wood Semaphore was there to show how elegant three-dimensional abstractions can be. Peter Lipman-Wulf's Horse and Man looked as if it had been made for fun from the contents of a carpenter's scrap barrel. Despite its casual air it was as tense and tightly constructed as anything in the show...
...expert pantomime, fills it out with no end of comic invention. In his nightclubbing adventures with the millionaire, he never gives the audience a chance to stop laughing. He leaps gallantly to the defense of the abused lady in an apache dance team; he munches steadily ceilingward on a string of confetti that gets snarled in his spaghetti; he tries repeatedly to light his cigar but succeeds only in lighting the cigar that the millionaire is waving airily before his face. In another sequence, beautifully timed and sustained, he turns a prizefight into an uproarious ballet in which...
...Juilliard String Quartet will give concerts today, at 5 p.m., in Paine Hall and at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders...