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DEBUSSY: IBERIA (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting; Victor: 5 sides). Debussy's subtle, impressionistic portrait of Spain gets its best all-round recording to date...
SCHUMANN : CONCERTO IN D MINOR FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting, with Yehudi Menuhin; Victor: 7 sides). The famed "lost" Schumann concerto confirms impressions of its U. S. premiere (TIME, Dec. 5). Its awkwardness causes even able Violinist Menuhin to wrestle...
Among the list of "prominent men and women who have set aside a definite time to meet you" we see all sorts of familiar names. Gregor Piatigorsky, John Barbirolli, Emily E. Connor and others prominent in social circles are listed. Write to secretary Ellen Webster, Wellesley '35, at the Hotel Biltmore for further particulars or call the CRIMSON any Sunday morning...
Last week, while John Barbirolli and Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony gave an all-Strauss program, Realist Strauss's most realistic score, the Domestic Symphony, was revived by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Dedicated to Frau Strauss & offspring, the symphony depicts scenes in the Strauss family circle. Philadelphians marveled & chuckled as Papa & Mama Strauss bickered, pleaded and brooded over the upbringing of Offspring Strauss. The argument realistically ended with Papa Strauss banging on the table (the whole brass section) and announcing that he would do pretty much...
...Gabrilowitsch and the contemporary Jose Iturbi, have been even more famed as instrumental soloists than as orchestral maestros. Still fewer can, like Germany's Richard Strauss, combine the abilities of a brilliant conductor with those of an eminent composer. Burly, slope-shouldered Rumanian Georges Enesco, who replaced John Barbirolli last week as guest conductor of New York's Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, is probably the only famous musical figure today who is equally noted as a composer, a conductor and a soloist...