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...Adventures of Hajji Baba (Allied Artists; 20th Century-Fox). In the old days, when a Hollywood studio wanted a famous composer to write background music for a film, it had to play an expensive game of Haydn seek; nowadays, the film colony has a sort of Bach yard full of kept musical geniuses. The current favorite is a man called Dimitri Tiomkin, who has filled in the awkward pauses of High Noon, Cyrano de Bergerac and many other recent pictures with stuff that one critic called "Kaffee-Klatchaturian...
...Clair de Lune and grinned ecstatically through a Latin rhythm piece, 2) cavorted with Skelton in a dance number, and 3) played straight man when Skelton came to call as a treblesome piano tuner. Item: Liberace, in his famed toothpasty smile, showed portraits of his four greatest inspirations - "Bach, Beethoven, Paderewski . . . and my dentist...
...longtime Al Smith Democrat, was elected president of American Woolen Co. of Boston. Ely succeeds Francis W. White, who remains as a director of the company. Ely's job is temporary. If stockholders approve a proposed merger with New England's Bachmann-Uxbridge Worsted Corp., Bach-manh-Uxbridge President Harold Walter will take over on June...
Ansbach, Germany (July 25-Aug.11): a solid week of Bach, including cantatas and rarely heard motets, the B Minor Mass, the six Brandenburg Concertos...
...overtones, for a series of Sunday-midnight concerts. Looking a little like a pudgy, scholarly Satan, Harpsichordist Valenti threaded his way among the tables, mounted the platform and affectionately patted the maple-colored instrument. Then he launched into pieces by such 18th century composers as Rameau, Domenico, Scarlatti and Bach. The music was brief, gracefully decorated with trills and curlicues, and its precise pinpoints of sound and muffled thunder filled the small room better than they do a larger concert hall. Customers found the music relaxing and, after the strangeness of the first few notes had worn off, a good...