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...great hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the sober portraits of Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven looked down on 1,600 music lovers, who in turn gazed expectantly at the stage. On the stage, seated at six instruments which looked like sewing machines with boxed-in superstructures, were six electrico-musical artists, all of scientific mien and all with electro-dynamic hair except one, who was as slick as a double-wrapped generator coil...
Composer Schönberg's music, as usual, sounded to the uninitiated as if the Philharmonic were methodically playing the Chicken Reel, a Bach Toccata and Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean all at once and in different keys. Nobody doubted that Hitler richly deserved...
...Trolley Song, on 160,000 Victor discs. Columbia followed with Harry James's The Love I Long For and 500,000 copies of White Christmas, sung by Frank Sinatra. On the classical front, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz got there first with recordings of the Schubert and Bach-Gounod Ave Marias (Columbia); runner-up was Pianist José Iturbi's recording of Morton Gould's Boogie Woogie Etude (Victor...
...into parsonage trouble. Mrs. Powell, a onetime nightclub performer, sued for separation after eleven years of marriage, charged Pastor Powell with "infatuation" for another nightclub performer. Broadway wiseacres immediately identified the parsonage-wrecker as round-eyed Pianist Hazel Scott, famed in café society for blending boogie-woogie with Bach. Asking the court to grant her $100 a week temporary alimony, Mrs. Powell told virtually all: "I pleaded with him to make good our marriage, in view of the fact that he was sure to be elected to Congress. He seized me solemnly by the shoulders and said...
...intended to draw spectators. . . . The old method was most satisfactory to all parties; the public was gratified by a procession ; the criminal was supported by it." He had no patience with music: "It gives me no ideas, Sir, and prevents me thinking about my own." "Pray, who is Bach, a piper?" In his last years he became asthmatic and dropsical, admitted that he was desperately afraid of being "one of those who shall be damned." "What do you mean by damned?" asked his doctor. "Sent to Hell, sir, and punished everlastingly," roared Johnson. He would glance fearfully at the dial...