Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nightclubs do not usually hire other people's halls to give public concerts, but last week one of them-Manhattan's "Cafe Society"-did exactly that. It hired Carnegie Hall. And it was the first time that nightclub entertainers had tried their hands so publicly on Bach, Beethoven, Schubert. The concert's label, "From Bach to Boogie-Woogie," accurately covered the efforts of the Negro Societarians...
...common report on the two new recordings of the "Eroica" is unfortunately true. Toscanini's performance on Victor, exciting as it is, suffers dreadfully from the poor acoustics of the NBC studio, where it was recorded during the Beethoven cycle last year. The studio is probably more satisfactory for radio broadcasting than a concert-hall, as it is arranged so that every note comes over with perfect clarity. But for a permanent recording, one wants resonance as well as clarity, and the tone in this album is so flat and dead as to make the set very unpleasant...
...conversation with Sorokin requires an effort to keep up with his wit, and when he gets serious, an effort to grasp what he is talking about. For him, the best art, literature, and music was produced before the nineteenth century. Enough of a cosmopolite to prefer Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart to Tchaikovsky and Rimsky Korsakov, smoke English instead of Russian cigarettes, keep cases of French wine in his cellar instead of scotch or vodka, and obtain American citizenship in 1930, he is nevertheless simple and quiet in taste, abhorring social life and all that it entails. However, the professor continues...
...Horn, Third Horn, Principal Trombone, Rank Viola. The Rank Viola-Thomas Russell -is secretary, too busy today to play in the orchestra. He used to carry the Philharmonic cash in a little black bag, now has a bank account. Since the barnstorming began, the orchestra has played music like Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (most popular) to 150,000 people, most of whom never heard a symphony before...
...Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 ("Eroica") in E Flat Major (New York Philharmonic-Symphony conducted by Bruno Walter; Columbia; 12 sides; $6.50; and NBC Symphony conducted by Arturo Toscanini; Victor; 13 sides; $7). Two versions of Beethoven's heroic symphony whose original dedication to Napoleon Bonaparte was canceled because the Bonaparte pretensions displeased the composer, present the customers with a tough choice. The Walter version is warm, well-recorded the best of recent Philharmonic discs. The Toscanini job is full of Beethoven's energy, but the recording-taken from a radio performance-sounds boxy...