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Nowadays, practicing and performing take so much time that Michael has to get his schooling from a tutor. A cocky, self-assured lad, he has already learned 20 concertos, including what he calls "the standard box-office concertos"-Brahms, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky. He will soon get a chance to perform all of them. His parents are allowing him a limited number of engagements (24 this season), mostly with symphony orchestras. He likes playing in public. "Stage fright? What's that?" Does he like turning pro so young? "Oh, yes. I like going from city to city...
...Beethoven: Concerto No. 4 (Guiomar Novaes, piano, with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Otto Klemperer conducting; Vox, 2 sides LP). Even those who prefer the old Schnabel versions will have to concede that Madame Novaes, a pianist in the same grand tradition, has something to say. Recording: somewhat harsh...
...chats, Forster roams freely from Beethoven's Symphony No. g and Eliot's Cocktail Party to a laughing description of how a South African houseboy once dumped a juicy platter of chicken in his lap. While demonstrating the range of his mind, he also files a minority report on the direction in which he thinks civilization is moving. Skeptical, urbane, relativistic, Two Cheers for Democracy is the report of a man who prefers to stand in the cool draft of a perpetually open mind. In an age of anxiety, he implies, more & more men are nibbling...
...Victor even has hopes of releasing a Toscanini performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9; several renderings have been recorded, but, because of minor imperfections, the maestro has refused to approve any of them, for release...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Toscanini conducting music of Prokofiev, Raff, Beethoven...