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Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte (Aksel Schiötz, tenor; Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano; Columbia). Danish Tenor Schiötz sings with incredible ease and warmth, gives Beethoven's famed song cycle its full, expressive measure...
...Uncle Tom Was a Burgler." The youthful narrator's critical appraisal of his uncle's fumbling attempts at a criminal career is delightful reading at times. The ending is a bit off-key; the improbable coincidence leading to a happy ending goes poorly with the matter-of-fact tenor of the rest of the story. But the story is enjoyable and should show both local writers and editors that light fiction has a place in the Advocate...
...breathtaking setting. To the land of the Fra Angelicos and hand-painted Sicilian donkey carts has come the neon glare of modern living-billboards, Life Savers, Esso stations, Hopalong Cassidy, even a little TV. Venetian canals boast traffic lights, and only a lusty gondolier could raise his tenor above the gaseous snarl of motoscafi...
Another pianist, Walter Gieseking, has a horror of looking up from the keyboard and seeing somebody swaying in time to the music. Totten's suggested explanation: "It might make him seasick." The late great Tenor John McCormack "thought flowers were unmanly," and delivered himself of some spluttering Irish oaths when he was once pelted with roses. Conductor Arturo Toscanini has a still stronger aversion: "He thinks flowers are for dead...
...ruins with the confusingly mixed-up slogans and emblems of about 18 different political parties. (Example: one party flaunted the rising sun, a second a full sun, a third the setting sun; at least three small parties encroached on the Communists' hammer & sickle.) There were some stunt candidacies (Tenor Beniamino Gigli, Bicyclist Alfredo Binda) and some frivolous parties (The Movement for Divorce, The Party of the Beefsteak), but basically the campaign would be a deadly political fight between the democratic center and the two anti-democratic extremes in Italian politics...