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...them. The artists worked on the scale of the present-day "New York School" abstractionists, for the pictures measure 7 ft. by 10 ft. and up. All 13 pictures (painted on mattress ticking) were commissioned over a century ago by one George Mastin. a Genoa. N.Y. tailor, farmer, phrenologist violin player and horse trader, who exhibited them, together with his own wares and talents, in barns all over his county...
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 6 (Helen Schnabel; Vienna Orchestra conducted by F. Charles Adler; SPA). Beethoven arranged this number himself at the behest of a publisher who offered him hard cash. It is a piano version of his famed Violin Concerto, its singing solo part reinforced by octaves, its cadenzas (including a ground-breaking passage for piano and timpani) especially written for the occasion. Not as silly as it might seem...
...hurled her onto the carpet ("You can't refuse a man of that importance," said one such lady), and then went straight back to his desk while an attendant picked up the hairpins. A few privileged ladies were rewarded by hearing the great dictator play them a violin sonata, but they received money (out of state funds) only if they frankly asked...
Recital Hall (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Sisters Maro and Anahid Ajemian on the piano and violin...
Plymouth-born Composer Bate, 40, waited long for last week's success. He wrote his symphony 14 years ago. A top-speed composer, he has written concertos for violin, viola, harpsichord and four for piano, seven ballets, two quartets and lots of other chamber music. A student of Vaughan Williams, he has studied and worked in Paris, New York (on a Guggenheim fellowship) and Australia. Bate, currently working on an opera, has heard little of his orchestral music performed. After hearing the Cheltenham performance he feels encouraged. "I liked hearing that one so much," he says, "I think...