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...panicked in such a fix, and Miss Ima rose to the occasion. After some quick transatlantic negotiation last week, she announced a major coup: to take over for Fricsay during the spring season. Miss Ima landed one of the world's most famous conductors. His name: Sir Thomas Beecham. Said Miss Ima: "He was very gracious. We feel elated...
Meanwhile, in London, a weighty if irascible voice was raised in defense of U.S. broadcasting. Testy Sir Thomas Beecham took four columns in the Sunday Times to tell his countrymen what was right about U.S. radio-TV. Musically, he said, the U.S. was far ahead, with weekly broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera six months a year and "the opportunity of hearing and seeing the great majority of the famous violinists, pianists, cellists, etc. of our time, whose respective fees are beyond the means of any other system outside the U.S.A.'' Conceding that these blessings were accompanied...
...been for sports, most TV sets could have been turned off last week with little loss. Dragnet, Mr. Peepers, Groucho Marx and a dozen other shows were still show ing repeat films to whoever happened to have missed them in the winter months. Sir Thomas Beecham would have been happy watching Light Heavyweight Archie Moore club Harold Johnson into submission (see SPORT), or seeing the professional Detroit Lions give the College All-Stars a painful football lesson, 31-6, on one of the largest radio (670 stations) and TV (160 stations) networks ever put together...
...Your Invitation to Music (Sun. 1 p.m., CBS). Sir Thomas Beecham conducts Delius' A Mass of Life...
Other notable new releases: Bach's St. Matthew Passion, sung by the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and soloists under the direction of Sir Ernest MacMillan (Victor-Bluebird) ; Delius' A Mass of Life, performed by the Royal Philharmonic, with choir and soloists under Sir Thomas Beecham (Columbia) ; Mozart's Concerto in A Major, played by Clifford Curzon with the London Symphony under Josef Krips (London); Mozart's Symphony No. 40, played by the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini (Victor...