Word: andor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paul Andor recreates his original Broadway role as Mr. Lenoir, the hotel-keeper, and speaks French with a good accent. As his wife, Suzanne Caubaye speaks a pseudo-French English that has too many Yiddish touches...
Other notable new recordings: all of Bach's English Suites played by Fernando Valenti (Westminster, 3 LPs); Kodály's Seven Piano Pieces, Op. 11, played by Ilona Kabos (Bartok Records); selections from Schumann's Piano Music, played by Andor Foldes (Mercury...
...with the clumsy conjunction "and/or" that was forever popping up in legal documents, the Georgia state house of representatives turned lexicographer for a moment and solemnly invented a substitute, "andor.'' But would the new word stick? Commented Lexicographer Wilfred Funk: "A deliberative body cannot legislate into existence a new word. Words live or die according to how they are accepted. I do not think 'andor' can live...
Mozart: Concerto in B Flat, K. 595 (Andor Foldes, pianist, with the Pro Musica Orchestra, Arthur Goldschmidt conducting; Vox, 2 sides LP). The last of Mozart's two dozen piano concertos, written in the year of his death (1791). Pianist Foldes plays it cleanly and with restraint. The orchestra is not quite so considerate. Recording: good...
Prokofiev: Concerto No. I (Andor Foldes, pianist, with the Lamoureux Orchestra, M. Martinon conducting; Vox, 1 side LP). This concerto, bold, brittle and brilliant, proves how formidable a composer the contemporary Russian master was, even at 20. Foldes gives it a fresh and clean performance. Recording: good...