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...later supervise productions of The Consul in London and Paris, as well as at La Scala. In his dedication to opera, he regrets that he has not had greater chance for orchestral composition. He has written a piano concerto and a ballet suite, Sebastian, is currently working on a violin concerto...
During Easter week, with valise and violin, Blandino went to Procida. There he dispatched letters to the Pope and to the Italian President, Premier and Minister of Justice, renewing his plea for legal recognition of voluntary substitutions. He slept on a cot in the same room with other prisoners, set up an altar in the reception room, commiserated with the war criminals and their visiting relatives. To newsmen he said: "Why have the Allies let big people go, and let the innocent ones who can't afford lawyers stay in jail? These people had to do as they were...
When Alfred Einstein began studying the violin, at nine, he soon realized he was no prodigy-"I only made a lot of noise." Later, as a student at the University of Munich, he tried his hand at composing the usual sonatas and fugues, soon found "I was not a Beethoven." But young Alfred, who had a distant, science-minded cousin named Albert Einstein, made music his career anyway...
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...
Bartok: Sonata for Violin Solo (Yehudi Menuhin, violinist; Victor, 6 sides 45 r.p.m.). Few composers since Bach have been able to write successful sonatas for solo violin. Bartok did, a year before his death in 1945, and Menuhin proves it. Recording: excellent...