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Bearded British Maestro Sir Thomas Beecham and ex-German ex-Auto Tycoon Fritz von Opel (recently detained 16 days by the British at Gibraltar) landed in Manhattan from the same ship, each stating his belief that England's chances of victory seemed slim at the moment. Lamented Sir Thomas: "The fact is we've been a feebly governed people for the last ten years...
Triste; Prelude to The Tempest (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor: 14 sides). Volume VI of the definitive Sibelius Society set, magnificently performed and recorded. These miscellaneous pieces, ranging from Op. 9 to Op. 109a, are nearly all bleak, bardic, Nordic, at times sound as relevant to contemporary Finland as an air-raid alarm...
...lady known as Elizabeth is now an old lady of 74. Born Mary Annette Beauchamp (pronounced Beecham), a cousin of the late Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Beauchamp), she was married first to a German nobleman, Count von Arnim, and in 1916 to the second Earl Russell, elder brother of Philosopher Bertrand Russell. After their separation a few years later, she lived and worked in Switzerland, England and France. Last summer she left her villa in the south of France, turned up at the Dublin Inn, Dublin, N. H. In the autumn, driving her own small car, she proceeded to the Gold...
Mozart: Symphony in D Major, K.385 (London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Columbia: 5 sides). Magnificent recording of a great late-Mozart symphony...
...winter of 1928 a sallow, jittery, 23-year-old Russian pianist named Vladimir Horowitz made a sensational Manhattan debut at a Carnegie Hall concert under the baton of gouty Sir Thomas Beecham. So steely brilliant and ballistically precise was his performance of Tschaikowsky's B Flat Minor Concerto that Manhattan critics hailed him as "the most successful artist to appear before the American public in a decade." For Pianist Horowitz that success was the first swell of a long crescendo. He was soon one of the biggest box-office draws in U. S. music...