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Schubert: Symphony No. 6 in C Major (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor, 7 sides). Sir Thomas makes a better showing than Schubert in one of the first recordings of a little-heard work that sounds like second-drawer Mozart...
...Royal College of Music in London, the young composer decided to burn his early manuscripts and try his luck elsewhere. He picked the U.S. for his future. In New York he taught composition, served as a music consultant to BBC, and became a protege of Sir Thomas Beecham. In the past three years Sir Thomas has performed his young compatriot's Sinfonia and his First Symphony...
...things worth applauding. One was the singing of the great Italian bass, Ezio Pinza; as Mephistopheles and as Don Giovanni, he proved again that he is the Metropolitan's brightest star. Another was the expert conducting of Hungarian-born George Szell, who, since the departure of Sir Thomas Beecham and Bruno Walter, is the Met's finest maestro. During the opening week six young U.S. singers made their first Metropolitan appearances. Of them, the likeliest future headliners seemed...
Married. Sir Thomas Beecham, 65, goateed maestro; and his second wife, Betty Humby Beecham, 36; for the second time, in a courtroom ceremony, to cover technicalities of British divorce laws before their return to England for a four months' visit; in Manhattan...
Mozart: Symphony No. 34 In C Major, K. 338 (London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Columbia; 6 sides). A top-notch Beecham interpretation, somewhat more ingratiating, some what less well recorded than Koussevitzky's brilliant Boston Symphony version...