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...Assistant Secretary of State to replace Careerman John Moors Cabot (see above), President Eisenhower had reached into the offices of Houston's prosperous law firm of Baker, Botts, Andrews & Shepherd. Henry Holland, 41, is a hardtraveling, top-rank lawyer who likes to hear Bach or Beethoven on his high-fidelity record player at breakfast...
After eight years abroad, Julius Katchen is convincing European audiences that he is not merely one of the best of young American pianists but, more simply, that he is one of the best of all pianists living today. Last month, after listening to him in a program of Beethoven, including the difficult 55-minute "Diabelli" Variations, the London Times granted him the full range of pianistic talents: "Demoniac violence . . . ethereal cantabile . . . the phenomenal technique of a virtuoso and the vision of a seer." Amsterdam's Het Parool called his playing "sublime ... an overwhelming experience...
This winter, in programming Beethoven's "Diabelli" Variations and last sona tas, the pianist from Long Branch dug into some of the deepest works in the repertory. But U.S. audiences may have to wait until next season to hear him in anything except records (London). Meanwhile, he is considering tours of Australia, Egypt and Turkey...
Other notable new records: all five of Beethoven's adult Piano Concertos, played by Wilhelm Kempff and the Berlin Philharmonic under Paul van Kempen (Decca, 3 LPs); all of Beethoven's Violin Sonatas, played by Jascha Heifetz (Victor 5 LPs); Ernest Bloch's String Quartet No. 2, played by the Musical Arts Quartet (Vanguard...
Milwaukeeans pride themselves on having a gemutlich city, where hospitality and friendship bubbles out of every stein of beer. "The three Bs of Milwaukee," says one Milwaukeean, "are not Beethoven, Bach and Brahms but beer, baseball and bowling. We haven't got a city of great culture. We can make any machine in Milwaukee, but we have no first-class theater building or art museum or orchestra-and no real prospect of them." 'For its lack of the outward signs of culture, the Journal has to share the blame. If Harry Grant had resolutely exercised his evangelistic fervor...