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Peppery, indomitable Sir Thomas Beecham last week launched his Mexico City Mozart festival (TIME, July...
Doughty, eloquent, imperially-bearded Sir Thomas Beecham sipped a spot of Scotch in Mexico City last week and glanced around at the state of things. Said he to a reporter: "I am willing to admit that there is an opera house here, my dear fellow, but nobody seems in charge of it." Sir Thomas had stepped ambitiously into the same musical scene which had proved almost too much for Leopold Stokowski last spring (TIME, June 5). But unlike Conductor Stokowski, who tried appeasement, Conductor Beecham proposed to deal with the situation in his own sharp, 18th-Century style...
...sooner had Sir Thomas started rehearsing than his rivals announced a performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni for the night before Beecham had scheduled...
Mexico's musical connoisseurs waited for the Don Giovanni of Sir Thomas Beecham...
...Mozart: Concerto No. 12 (K.414) for Piano and Orchestra (London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting, with Louis Kentner; Columbia; 6 sides). First U.S. release of a European recording of one of Mozart's most ingratiating concertos. Performance: fair. Recording: good. Johann Strauss: Blue Danube Waltz (NBC Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor). A fascinating illustration of a great conductor's weakness. Maestro Toscanini's Danube is a swift torrent of molten lava. Recording: fair...