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Musically, the most notable Chicago operas were two performed last week: Richard Strauss 's Salome, blazingly conducted by Artur Rodzinski; and the best of modern Italian works, The Love of Three Kings, conducted by its Composer Italo Montemezzi. Best opera in English was Verdi's Falstaff, retranslated from the Italian to sound something like Shakespeare. Baritone John Charles Thomas patterned his make-up from a Falstaff beer advertisement, said "Falstaff is just a plain red-nosed comedian to me," acted that way. He got one of his laughs by singing, right out, "Go to hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera in English | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...final concerts Pianist Artur Rubinstein, an early admirer of Villa-Lobos. played apiece called Rudepôema ("Savage Poem") which Villa-Lobos had intended to be both a portrait of the pianist and the most difficult piano work ever composed. Whether or not its brilliantly wham-banging measures actually portrayed mild-looking Mr. Rubinstein, Rudepôema sounded like a stumper for any virtuoso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Choros in Manhattan | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...Harris' eight-minute work, which he called Challenge 1940, had been commissioned by Conductor Artur Rodzinski -a U. S. citizen, born of Polish parents on the Dalmatian coast. Last week Rodzinski and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony gave Challenge 1040 its first performance, in a concert which brought 13,000 people to the open-air Lewisohn Stadium in Manhattan. The concert was dedicated to Democracy. Aside from two democratic Czech pieces, the program was 100% American. It made good listening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: I Hear America Singing | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Record Revival | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Chopin: Mazurkas, Volume II (Artur Rubinstein, pianist; Victor: 10 sides). A Chopin specialist continues a roundup of the 54 many-faceted Polish dances (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: May Records | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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