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Villa-Lobos: Album of Piano Music (Artur Rubinstein; Victor; 4 sides). Sparkling Brazilian impressionism by the country's foremost composer. Performance and recording: excellent...
Szell's Wagner, like his Strauss and Moussorgsky, is remarkable not only for power and dramatic vitality (as was that of the late Artur Bodanzky) but also for its meticulous clarity. He manages to keep the highest lucidity of musical patterns among half-a-dozen stars, a hundred chorus singers and a hundred orchestra players. He does this by being one of the most coldly efficient tyrants who ever stood in the Metropolitan's orchestra...
...Carnegie Hall audience that CBS had not been gypped. The symphony rolled out on the U.S. air waves, streamlined and spectacular. It had all the usual Shostakovich features, including special, de luxe, noncollapsible climaxes, probably the most efficient roof-raisers of their type known to the trade. Conductor Artur Rodzinski put it through its power-dives with a veteran test pilot's skill. At times the orchestra glittered with satire; at others it seemed to strum itself like a giant balalaika...
...Artur Rodzinski, conductor of the New York Philharmonic, anathematized jazz. Said he: "With so many homes broken as a result of the family head serving in the armed forces, parental supervision is lacking, and this type of music leads to war degeneracy." For the rebuttal up rose Leopold Stokowski: "Some foreigners do not understand how rich the U.S. is in folk music. . . ." Said Frank Sinatra (whose worshipers had been labeled "pitiful cases" by Rodzinski): "Nuts! . . . After all, I grew up in a jazz craze, and I did all right...
...musical Czech of the hour was the occupied nation's foremost living composer, Bohuslav Martinu, now of Manhattan. In Cleveland (which has one of the largest Czech populations to be found in any U.S. city), Erich Leinsdorf conducted the premiere of Martinu's Second Symphony. In Manhattan, Artur Rodzinski conducted the premiere of a Martinu symphonic poem called Memorial to Lidice. In Philadelphia, Eugene Ormandy was rehearsing a third new Martinu composition, a Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, with the help of duo-Pianists Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff. In Boston, Sergei Koussevitzky was planning a December...