Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 (the Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell conducting; Columbia, 8 sides). Robert Schumann called the Fourth "a slender Greek maiden between two Norse giants" (the Eroica and the Fifth). In his Columbia debut with the Cleveland Orchestra, Conductor Szell has sculptured her skillfully and gracefully. Performance: excellent...
...wholesale lots. Canning and transmitting musical effects was a huge and complicated industry in which the artist, the advertiser, the salesman and the inventor fought ceaselessly for expression and profit. Its impact upon the people of the U.S. and the world was tremendous-it had given them both the Beethoven Ninth and Too Fat Polka ("I don't want her, You can have her, She's too fat for me"). It had also made possible the use of either Beethoven or boogie-woogie in the sale of elevator shoes or political propaganda...
...true tradition of Franz Liszt, the performer is the main attraction; instead of being awed by the grandeur of Beethoven, his audiences leave the recital babbling of the magnificence of Vladimir Horowitz. This is all great fun; whether it is a good thing from an aesthetic point of view is a sore point. At any rate, Horowitz has the most flawless technique of anyone alive, is quite aware of the fact, and plans his programs and performances accordingly...
...first year on U.S. records, Soviet Composer Aram Khachaturian (TIME, Nov. 10) got in the top 15 with his flashy Gayane Ballet Suite and his trashy Piano Concerto. Beethoven, usually voted a top favorite in most U.S. bull-session polls, made the list with two piano sonatas, the Moonlight and Pathétique, neither of which rates tops with highbrow critics. Pianist José Iturbi led the single record best-sellers with Debussy's Clair de Lune and a firm version of Chopin's much-mutilated A-Flat Polonaise...
...league choral singing. He has put new life into the art in the U.S. CBS and RCA Victor own only their company names for Shaw's choruses. When they want a chorus of 40 to record the Bach B Minor Mass (Victor) or 30 voices for broadcast of Beethoven's Mass, they go to Shaw. He has a huge reservoir of singers-his cleanly trained, 185-voice Collegiate Chorale. Their recorded performances of Bach rank with the best in Europe. About the only time he gets all his 185 singers together is when the Chorale puts...