Word: alberto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BITTER HONEYMOON (221 pp.)-Alberto Moravia-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
Guests Without Hosts. Brazil's Jusce-lino Kubitschek, with Uruguay's Alberto Zubiria a guest in his plane, had planned to be back in Rio for a state visit by Argentina's Pedro Aramburu, but engine trouble delayed them in Peru, and bad weather stalled them in Santiago, Chile. Chile's Carlos Ibanez, however, was not on hand to greet them; on his way home the Chilean President had 1) run across Ecuador's Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra at the Guayaquil airport and dawdled over a glass of champagne, and 2) landed at Lima...
...moody, darkly romantic Quartet moved several critics to high praise; it also proved that Composer Gould is still several giant steps behind Pianist Gould in accomplishments. Glenn Gould was 3½ when he first sat down to play. By 10 he was studying with the Toronto conservatory's Alberto Guerrero; at 14 he performed with the Toronto Symphony. Since then, his life has been rigidly circumscribed by the demands of his musical career. In his rare free hours (he practices and reads scores eight hours a day before a performance), Gould studies other composers (major influences: Schoenberg, Anton Bruckner...
Russian Operatic Arias (Raphael Arie, basso; Paris Conservatory Orchestra conducted by Alberto Erede; London). One of the world's best bass voices, used as it should be, in some of the finest bass arias. Included: songs from Eugene Onegin, Prince Igor, Sadko, Boris Godunov...
Other noteworthy records: Nine Beethoven Symphonies, played by the NBC Symphony under Toscanini and popularly priced (Victor, 6 LPs); Puccini's Turandot, with Inge Borkh and Mario del Monaco and St. Cecilia Academy musicians under Alberto Erede (London, 3 LPs); Ravel's Complete Piano Works, played by Walter Gieseking (Angel...