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...Cathedral, General La-vine-eccentric, etc.). Their delicate, pastel coloration, slippery sonorities, puckish humor and technical perfection make these four sides the best of the lot. When Gieseking comes to the otherworldly slow movement of Mozart's Concerto in A Major (K. 488), he sounds rather heartless; his Beethoven G-Major Concerto is appropriately intimate, but could do with more drive and more clarity of detail...
...Beethoven: Concerto No. 4 in G Major (Badura-Skoda; Vienna Opera Orchestra, Hermann Scherchen conducting; Westminster). Young (25) Viennese Pianist Paul Badura-Skoda plays with the energy and precision that Gieseking lacks in this middle-period Beethoven (it was written in the same year as the Fifth Symphony). The recording favors the piano here, but the orchestra sounds full-bodied and well balanced...
Mozart: "Coronation" Concerto (K. 537) (Gina Bachauer, New London Orchestra, Alec Sherman conducting; Victor). A composition that has some of Beethoven's grandeur and relentlessness, which is fully realized by Pianist Bachauer. Recording: clear...
...Junior had a large field of entertainment yet to be explored. John Phillip Souse arrived in Cambridge with his famous band for a concert. Over at Symphony Hall Serge Koussevitzky and a young graduate student named G. W. Wood worth were training the Glee Club for a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. And the Hasty Pudding Theatricals were recruiting talent for "1776", a play that was to travel around the country, with W.E. Wilson as a very charming young heroine...
...played for U.S. occupation troops). Four or five citizens wrote protesting letters to the Honolulu papers, but there was no picket line. Six hundred showed up for the concert in Dillingham Hall (capacity: 850), and Gieseking brought them to their feet for encores after a sparkling program of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Mendelssohn and Debussy. He gave them four encores, accepted a lei of pink carnations...