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...fourth generation of Busches is on the way-two small Singhers, four small Serkins. The most musical of them is Johnny Serkin, three, born on Beethoven's birthday, and already learning to draw the bow across his violin. Says Mrs. Adolf: "Nobody is anxious to hurry him. We hate child prodigies...
...unfortunate that such a chamber music group as the Budapest Quartet, in its only Boston appearance of the season, should, when restricted to three quartets, play those of Brahms and Mendelssohn as showpieces, rather than the far superior works of Haydn and Beethoven. Even with such a deficient program, however, the beauty of the group's tone and their remarkably close collaboration makes this concert one of the greatest pleasures of any musical season...
...various instruments that our members felt impelled to rise to the occasion." Barrymore made just one stipulation: that he be allowed to choose the soloist. He chose a 13-year-old Chicago high-school freshman with braces on her teeth, whom he had heard play Tschaikovsky and Beethoven in the lobby of a Los Angeles hotel...
...Beethoven: Sonata in F Minor "Ap-passionata" (Artur Rubinstein; Victor, $ sides) and Concerto No. 3 in C Minor (Artur Rubinstein and the NBC Symphony, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Chopinist Rubinstein takes on Beethoven. Concerto No. 3, recorded at a radio broadcast, has some technical limitations but few musical ones. Performance of both: excellent...
...perennial Christmas best sellers. Last season it was played twelve times by U.S. symphony orchestras; it was also dance-timed by Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians (TIME, Nov. 12). In U.S. phonograph-record sales - principally because of Peter and the Wolf-Prokofiev rates above Mozart, though far below Beethoven and Tchaikovsky...