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...soloist trade. It hires soloists by the bushel, and ladies out Tableaus sums for them. As a result--and here is the rub--it must budget, and in so doing cheats the public with second and third-rate conductors. The substitution of some first-rank conductors like Rodzinski and Beecham for the interminable Golschmanns, Smalleness, and Von Hoogstrateus, (who obviously have only got their jobs through Curuegie Hall politics), would take the curse off a concert without soloists, and the public might begin to go in for Brahms and Becthoven a little more, Hcifetz and Rubinstein a little less...
...ndel-Beecham: Ballet Suite from the Faithful Shepherd (London Philharmonic conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham; Columbia; 6 sides; $3.50). Since the singing eunuchs of the 18th Century, for whom it was written, went out of style, Händel's opera The Faithful Shepherd has been a flop. But its stately, gentle ballet music, resurrected by Sir Thomas Beecham, is still as fetching a job of periwigged melody as ever came out of the 1700s...
Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E Flat (London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham; Columbia; 6 sides; $3.50). Sir Thomas, famed for his way with Mozart, made this recording just before he left England last year. One of the three greatest Mozart symphonies, it has been in the grooves before but never so perfectly...
...midst of this week's heat wave, CBS gave a Sunday broadcast of music that was as distinguished, and as warmly unseasonal, as a boiled shirt. One of the world's half-dozen ablest conductors, England's goateed, salt-&-peppery Sir Thomas Beecham, struck up with the CBS Symphony. His tangiest item was a seldom-played piano concerto, the only one written by England's late, blind Frederick Delius, who once lived in Florida. At the keyboard in the concerto was a third Briton: pretty, blonde Betty Humby, 33, who has supported herself by expert piano...
...organized concerts in British cathedrals (free, easy to advertise). She also helped keep evacuated children out of mischief by holding morning concerts in cinemas. Last autumn, with her ten-year-old son Jeremy, she went to the U.S., where she plans to remain for the duration, believing (like Conductor Beecham) that she can help England without being there...