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...Harrington Square, he erected a façade of innocuous jobs (publisher's assistant, bookkeeper, language teacher, corset salesman), took on Western airs and a Western wife. She was Ivy Low, radical daughter of an English writer. He came to admire the works of Henry James, Jane Austen, Beethoven and Bach; he took up contract bridge. But Litvinoff remained Bolshevik to the core-a blunt, opportunistic, skeptical revolutionary, with a keen, mousetrap kind of mind that was wired always to orders from home...
...afternoon in a Los Angeles auditorium, a little girl gazed while Isadora Duncan, trailing a costume that resembled a set of colossal portieres, danced about the stage for the entire length of a Beethoven symphony. At curtain call La Duncan, scarcely winded, characteristically urged her exhausted audience to go right out and run barefoot through the hills. The little girl promptly took off her shoes and tried -to the exasperation of her mother, who spent several hours tweezing out the cactus spines...
...station's schedule, released yesterday, features Dixieland, swing, and modern jazz from today until 12 midnight on January 10. Other programs will be devoted to Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque music through Bach; Haydn, Mozart and pre-Beethoven; Beethoven; the Romantics; the Moderns from R. Strauss; Gilbert and Sullivan and opera...
...music, however, was magnificent-controlled and precise, full of charm and nuance, and as smoothly and sweetly toned as the famed strings of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Playing the Beethoven "Razou-mouvsky" Op. 59, No. 3 the same easy way, the young musicians displayed a virility and vigor that brought roars of "bravo" with the last note. Their glassy sonorities and petal-soft pianissimos in the final Debussy proved that they command just about every quality of quartet sound. The audience, aware that they were hearing what is probably the finest quartet of the day, refused to go home. The Italians...
...Beethoven: Quartets Op. 131 and Op. 59, Nos. 1, 2 and, 3 (the Pascal String Quartet; Concert Hall Society, 8 sides LP). Distinguished performances of one of the great "last" quartets and of the three "Rasoumovsky" quartets from Beethoven's middle years. The Paganini Quartet, playing with a more refined tone, offers an equally distinguished performance of the superb Quartet Op. 132 (Victor, 2 sides LP). Recordings: good...