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...weeks thousands of music lovers had heard the greatest of music, from Bach to Bartok, played by such orchestras as Amsterdam's superb, 65-year-old Concertgebouw and Rome's famed Augusteo. They had heard the Mozart piano concertos, performed unforgettably by their finest living interpreter-Pianist Artur Schnabel. They had seen Mozart's operatic masterpieces, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan Tutti, given with polish by a company that is fast becoming the best in the business-Britain's Glyndebourne. They had heard superlative choral works, including Bach's B Minor Mass, sung...
Conductor Artur Rodzinski, haggard and unshaven, arrived in Salzburg three days late on his concert rehearsal schedule. Explaining his delay, he told friends that he and Moral Re-Armer Frank Buchman, attending an Oxford Group conference in Caux-sur-Montreux, Switzerland, had had a furious, long-drawn-out quarrel (Rodzinski did not say what about). Off to Rome on the next leg of his concert tour, the conductor asked a TIME correspondent to "spare me the doubtful honor of ever again calling me 'ardent Buchmanite...
...years, birdlike Bernard Lamotte must still go back to Paris to find the scenes he most likes to paint. Last week, the results of his latest visit hung in a Los Angeles gallery. Hollywood's well-heeled art lovers (including Designer Adrian and wife Janet Gaynor, Artur Rubinstein, Fanny Brice, Producer Buddy de Sylva) turned out in strength...
...music lovers ever have any trouble appreciating Artur Schnabel, the great pianist. But in London last week, even 66-year-old Pianist Schnabel himself was afraid that many were going to have trouble with Schnabel, the composer. His atonal First Symphony is so formidable that he thought London audiences and critics ought to get a warmup on it before its premiere. So he invited them to the final rehearsal...
...Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Guest: Artur Rubinstein...