Word: artur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also repressed, at 50? to $1, a great many foreign recordings. Columbia, most of whose twelve-inch symphonic discs remained at $1.50, began improving its product mechanically, lately signed up such topnotchers as the Minneapolis Symphony under Dimitri Mitropoulos, the Chicago Symphony under Frederick Stock, the Cleveland Orchestra under Artur Rodzinski. Likewise U. S. Records (run by Eli Oberstein, onetime Victor executive) produced a collection of classical recordings, not of the best mechanically but attractively priced...
Chopin: Mazurkas, Volume II (Artur Rubinstein, pianist; Victor: 10 sides). A Chopin specialist continues a roundup of the 54 many-faceted Polish dances (TIME...
Jaromir Weinberger: Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree (Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia: four sides). An English pseudo-folk song made famous when King George VI sang it at a boys' camp (TIME, Oct. 23), Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree was really written by old-fashioned British Composer William Sterndale Bennett. The spirited, polka-dotted variations on it by Czech Weinberger (who thought it a genuine antique) get brilliant treatment from the Clevelanders...
Fortnight ago Ouida Rathbone was at it again. So was the weather. It poured. But that did not stop 54 guests, representing most of Hollywood's international elite, from streaming into the plush-conditioned Rathbone mansion. Occasion was a party in honor of Polish:born Pianist Artur Rubinstein. London-born Conductor Leopold Stokowski, and Poland...
...trouble started last November with the death of hawk-faced Conductor Artur Bodanzky, long the Metropolitan's principal Wagner conductor (TIME...