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...Vox Populi. In Washington, New Hampshire's Senator Norris Cotton received a fan letter from a high school girl: 'All my friends are saving pictures of movie stars and I want to be different, so please send me photos of twelve senators, but pick carefully, even the best are sort of funny looking...
...Vox Populi. To the troubled Princess, it was small comfort that there were some who tried to dismiss the whole matter as a moss-backed anachronism. Racing to the Princess' defense, the cocky tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 4,665,000) asked its more influential brother (circ. 221,972): "Would the Times have preferred this vivacious young woman to marry one of the witless wonders with whom she has been hobnobbing these past few years? Or to live her life in devoted spinsterhood? Luckily the Times cannot banish Princess Margaret. It speaks for a dusty world and a forgotten...
Mozart: Rondo in A Minor, K. 511 (Guiomar Novaès, piano; Vox). One of the remarkable compositions of Mozart's last years, this rondo spaces out a pretty, parlor-music theme with unusual interludes of poignance and even tragedy. Brazilian Pianist Novaès plays it (and three sonatas) with warmth and strength...
Schubert. Brahms and Strauss songs, sung by Soprano Kirsten Flagstad (Victor) ; Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, played by members of the Vienna Octet (London) ; Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, narrated by 13-year-old Brandon (Member of the Wedding) de Wilde (Vox...
...more famed operas (Der Freischutz, Oberon, Euryanthe). Other notable new releases: Brahms's German Requiem (soloists, Frankfurt Opera Chorus and Orchestra and Museum Orchestra conducted by Georg Sold; Capitol, 2 LPs); Giuseppe Torelli's Twelve Concert!, Op. 8 (Stuttgart Pro Musica String Orchestra conducted by Rolf Reinhardt; Vox, 3 LPs). Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, in fine performances by Jascha Heifetz and London's Philharmonia Orchestra under Walter Susskind (Victor), and Zino Francescatti and the New York PhilhaononicSymphony under Dimitri Mitropoulos (Columbia); Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. I (Nathan Milstein and the St. Louis Symphony conducted...