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...Beethoven: Quartet in C Major, Op. 18, No. 2 (Victor; 6 sides; $3.50) and Mozart: Quartet In D Minor (K. 421) (Columbia; 6 sides; $3.50). A pair of superbly tooled chamber-music items, both played by the unsurpassed Budapest Quartet...
British authorities claimed last week that 100,000,000 people in Europe listened to BBC broadcasts of the Morse dit-dit-dit-dar, the opening notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, various versions of V propaganda. In Gibraltar British Tommies with paint pots sloshed Vs on all cars passing into Spain. The campaign spread to South America, where Brazilian students plastered Vs on the walls of an Italian newspaper building...
...people how to tap it out in Morse Code, three dots and a dash, recommended it as a signal for calling waiters, knocking on doors, blowing auto horns, bugles and train whistles. Soon that tat-tat-tat-too was heard all over Europe. He told them to call for Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, whose opening "fate-knocks-at-the-door" motif is three short bars and one long one. Beethoven V became a peculiarly popular concert piece...
...dark, wiry, bug-eyed Larry Adler, son of a Baltimore plumber, won a harmonica contest sponsored by the Baltimore Sun. He shrewdly sized up the judges as serious musicians, played a Beethoven minuet instead of the popular tunes submitted by other contestants. Mouth Organist Adler went to Manhattan, at 16 played a bit in Flo Ziegfeld's Smiles, became a protégé of Eddie Cantor, whom he slightly resembled. In his early stage turns, Larry Adler wore ragamuffin garb, a conventional uniform for harmonicists. But after C. B. Cochran took him to London in 1934 nothing less...
...Sully spent a year in Munich as a Sheldon Travelling Fellow; since then he has been teaching German at Harvard. In his home at 18 Mt. Auburn Street, he reads the Old Testament in the original, saves pennies in brass pig toward his record collection, and murders Beethoven and Haydn on the piano which stands in his bedroom beside a bust of Groucho Marx...