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Perched on a high laboratory stool, crooning snatches of Beethoven and Mozart, an old man squinted happily through his microscope. Herbert Spencer Jennings, 76, was watching the complex love affairs of some of earth's smallest and simplest creatures...
...radio performance of Beethoven's masterpiece, Fidelia, finally broke the spell. The first installment was broadcast last Sunday on the regular Toscanini-conducted NBC Symphony program, with a second installment to follow this week. For his Fidelia the maestro drew heavily on the Metropolitan's roster, allotted principal roles to Sopranos Rose Bampton and Eleanor Steber, Tenor Jan Peerce, Baritone Herbert Janssen, Bass Nicola Moscona. At the end of the broadcast, a distinguished audience-including half of Manhattan's top-rank musical celebrities, who had frantically begged their invitations-caught its breath, hoped fervently that the maestro...
...great hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the sober portraits of Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven looked down on 1,600 music lovers, who in turn gazed expectantly at the stage. On the stage, seated at six instruments which looked like sewing machines with boxed-in superstructures, were six electrico-musical artists, all of scientific mien and all with electro-dynamic hair except one, who was as slick as a double-wrapped generator coil...
...from a piano. Then they played some of the eeriest, sweetest, funniest, saddest, sourest and most heavenly music ever heard. The first concert of the sextet of emiritons roused occasional flutters of approval and once in a while a great burst of laughter. Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven never batted...
...James Caesar Petrillo's musicians' union, and then because it did. Last week, with the recording ban finally lifted (TIME, Nov. 20) and the U.S. record-buying public about to go on a shopping spree, Koussevitzky & Co. were hard at work on a brand-new version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Keeping pace, the Philadelphia Orchestra was waxing Strauss's Death and Transfiguration, Beethoven's Seventh and Dvorak's New World symphonies...