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Music was as ubiquitous as Muzak at the Tanglewood festival in Lenox, Mass. last week. As the Boston Symphony's 16th summer season came to a close, Pianist Artur Rubinstein and Conductor Charles Munch performed for 10,000 listeners in & around the wall-less Music Shed. Then Leonard Bernstein took the podium to lead a concert and a revised version of his 35-minute-long opera, Trouble in Tahiti (TIME, June 23). At week's end, there were three orchestral programs, one for chorus and one of chamber music. The grand finale : a 280-man performance of Berlioz...
A.F.L. Musicians Boss James Caesar Petrillo was deeply annoyed when he heard that one of his boys, Conductor Artur Rodzinski, had made some unauthorized (by Petrillo) recordings in Vienna last March. Now, getting wind that Maestro Rodzinski might cut a few more longhair platters in Europe, Little Caesar thundered: "If he wants to scab, he'd better get out of the union. And if he leaves...he won't be worth a plugged nickel. He'd walk out on the stage and [our members] would walk out on him. That's what would happen...
...Favorite. It took three days for all the finalists to get their hearings in Brussels' Palais des Beaux-Arts. By the time judgment night rolled around, the crowd already had its favorite: 23-year-old Leon Fleisher of Manhattan, a pupil of the late Artur Schnabel. In the preliminary rounds Fleisher had drawn so much applause that the presiding judge had to ring a bell to silence the audience and get on with the contest. In the grand finale, Fleisher popped a piano string in the middle of the Brahms Concerto No. 1. But instead of blowing...
...Dempsey Punch. It was a difficult choice, the judges said, but they were pleased with the winner. Said Artur Rubinstein : "A deep musician. There is hope for a truly great pianist." Seconded Olin Downes: "He has the Dempsey punch...
...first time since the late Artur Schnabel's memorable performances of 1932, all 32 of the Beethoven piano sonatas have been recorded (for Decca) by one man. The pianist: Germany's Wilhelm Kempff, 56. In Paris last fall, Kempff played the complete Beethoven cycle in recital, and Paris' critics forthwith ranked him ahead of Schnabel, Backhaus and Serkin. For the time being, at least, U.S. Beethoven fans will have to appraise his works from recordings. Like his fellow German pianist, Walter Gieseking, Kempff chose to go on playing in Germany under Hitler, now seems disinclined to risk...