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Prokofiev: Cinderella (the Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden, Warwick Braithwaite conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). The score for the ballet now being performed in Russia and by England's Sadler's Wells (TIME, Nov. 14), and what Russian Expatriate Igor Stravinsky calls "Soviet music-bah!" Completely undistinguished, it sounds more often like so-so Soviet Composer Khachaturian than great Composer Prokofiev. Performance and recording: good...
...Pooh-Bah. In Hobart, Okla., County Attorney Carpenter Hughes, arrested for drunkenness, declined to press charges against himself...
...said a Cockney survivor from the Consort. "But we gave it back to 'em. I saw one of their nahsty damned 'owitzers blown right aht of its bloody emplacement. Sky 'igh it went, too. We must 'ave killed two or three 'undred of the bah-stads." (In London, the Admiralty later said of the Consort: "She silenced the opposition...
...public's musical taste? Bah!" declared testy Sir Thomas Beecham. "The public never had taste-only an appetite . . . They'll listen to anything, just as they'll eat anything, however ill-cooked...
Nora also has a new fan. Last summer, when Impresario Sol Hurok's secretary asked her to meet another of Hurok's clients, she snorted "A musician? Bah! They're all such egotists." Top-rank, young (29) Violinist Isaac Stern felt the same way about ballerinas, even though he had never paid much attention to ballet, had only seen a part of Les Sylphides once when Hurok had dragged him along. Nora and Isaac, married in November, now think there are exceptions...