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Small World (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Maria Callas in Italy, Victor Borge at home on his Connecticut farm and Sir Thomas Beecham in Nice form a talking trio...
Haydn: The Salomon Symphonies, Vol. I (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham; Capitol-EMI, 3 LPs). The first six of the twelve famous symphonies Haydn wrote under the sponsorship of London Impresario J. P. Salomon in the late years of his life. Conductor Beecham gives them a fine, forthright reading that underscores their coltish exuberance, plays down their romantic charms...
Died. Lady Beecham, 50, British concert pianist (Betty Humby), wife of Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, 79; of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires, where Sir Thomas was completing a concert series...
...BATON FOR THE CONDUCTOR (219 pp.)-T. L W. Hubbard-Houghfon Mifflin ($3). ] "You see," the young man told the psychiatrist, "[my uncle] began as Sir Henry Wood. Then he passed through a Beecham phase, a Boult phase and a Sargent phase . . . After that [he] began adding new tricks with each conductor he studied...
Audiences as well as performers were finally called to order by the batons of great conductors-Sir Thomas Beecham, Bruno Walter, Fritz Reiner. Sir Thomas, who began conducting at Covent Garden in 1910, often whirled on the audience to snap: "Shut up!" Once, in a glow of satisfaction, he turned and said: "Not so bad for England...