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Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4; Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor (Jascha Heifetz, Sir Thomas Beecham, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Seraphim). Although Heifetz could sometimes be showy in the exercise of a most prodigious violin technique, his tone never lost its radiant silkiness even in the most difficult music. In these two performances (dating, from 1947 and 1949 respectively), the breathtaking Heifetz sound profits from Sir Thomas Beecham's restraining influence...
Died. Martha Baird Rockefeller, 75, onetime concert pianist, second wife and widow of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and stepmother to the five Rockefeller brothers and their sister, Mrs. Jean Mauzé; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Young Martha Baird played under such conductors as Pierre Monteux, Sir Thomas Beecham and Serge Koussevitzky. She retired in 1931, married Rockefeller in 1951 and became a generous patroness of music. Besides establishing the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music to aid young musicians, she backed the recent Metropolitan Opera productions of Norma and Fidelio and the New York City Opera...
Corsaro has his keen eye on other Delius operas. As he points out, no less an authority than the late Sir Thomas Beecham, Delius' friend and greatest champion, considered A Village Romeo and Juliet and Fennimore and Gerda infinitely superior to Koanga...
...impressive conductor. He was the embodiment of the classic American caricature of the maestro. His stature, his long flowing hair, his stately appearance, and his knighthood completed the effect. Appearance does not assure good press, though, and Barbirolli never got it. While most of the great British conductors-Beecham, Goossens, Sargent, Boult-stayed primarily in their native country, Barbirolli came to America to conduct the New Pork Philharmonic when Toscanini left it in 1937. His disastrous career here insured him of a bad critical reputation for the rest of his life...
...dominance. What is far less visible and less controversial is the great foreign stake in the U.S. Few Americans realize that when they launder clothes with Lever Brothers' Lux, drink Lipton's Tea, open a can of Libby's tomato juice or groom their hair with Beecham's Brylcreem, they are buying from companies owned or controlled by foreigners...