Word: bahs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bah, humbug! Stop reading the CRIMSON and get back to your ledger...
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...
...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...