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...Buenos Aires, Artur Rubinstein narrowly avoided an unthinkable calamity. When he learned that the piano shipped from the States wouldn't reach him by concert time, he had another favorite, a 1,400-lb. concert grand, rushed by plane from Manhattan, thus escaped playing an instrument he had never used before...
...composers spared Mossman's working-over were Bach, Beethoven and Schumann. Last week Schumann took the count. Mossman published three Tin Pan Alley adaptations of Schumann, timed to soften up the U.S. for a movie on Schumann's life, Song of Love, in which Pianist Artur Rubinstein plays Schumann's music straight (TIME, May 26). Schumann's Träumerei will be crooned and swung as Fantasy; the song Widinung will be known as Dedication. From the great A Minor Piano Concerto, Mossman has wrung a vapid tune called A Love Story...
...Chicago Symphony's new conductor, Artur Rodzinski, who longs to conduct opera as he once did in Europe, saw The Rape in rehearsal and went away excited. Said he: "The whole thing is very thrilling, full of new ideas. Britten has a very original language, which you can't compare to anything. Menotti you could say sounds like Puccini, but Britten is just Britten...
...class is the pianist Sir Thomas approached at week's end. He asked Pianist Artur Schnabel, perhaps the top living interpreter of Beethoven and Mozart, to play with the Royal Philharmonic next month. Schnabel, who was once Lady Beecham's teacher, declined. He was, he said, leaving London the next day. But, he added slyly, "if it were possible, I would have liked to have taken a chance on a Mozart concerto...
Conductor Artur Rodzinski wanted his new orchestra, the Chicago Symphony (TIME, Feb. 17), to strike a higher note than any musicians had ever even tried to strike before. A few broadcasts of his new orchestra, he told a press conference, might well bring peace to a savage world. He added...