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...Beethoven's First Symphony by the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under Willem Mengelberg (Victor, $8)-A capable performance by the Dutchman who last year left the U. S. because he could not play a capable second fiddle to Conductor Arturo Toscanini. The recording is excellent...
...their chief goals. At a local movie house the other night there was a waiting line, and as several hundred people stood about, somebody started to whistle. He rendered the "Arlesienne" Suite of Bizet, correct as to all its tricky intricacies. Somebody responded with the third movement of the Beethoven Fifth. Presently there was a lusty twittering all through the lobby: one heard the Tschaikowsky Sixth, the "Meistersinger" Prelude, the Brahms Third, the Ravel Bolero, the Gershwin Concerio...
...Spalding made a name for himself, lived down his comfortable background. Today no U. S. musician has greater honor in his own country and in Europe than. Violinist Spalding. Recently in Europe he gave 50 concerts with unusual success, in Berlin had highest praise for his playing of a Beethoven concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic under Conductor Karl Muck. In Manhattan last week he gave one of 50 recitals scheduled for the U. S., played with rare skill and sensitiveness a Porpora-Mozart-Beethoven program salted with pleasant short compositions of his own. Spalding's personality as well...
...himself a budding Beethoven...
...Beethoven's Adelaide by Baritone Heinrich Schlusnus (Brunswick, $1.50)-A foremost lieder singer displays his fine phrasing, his immaculate diction. Sing Something Simple and Happy Feet (Victor)-The Revelers again get the effects of a full-piece band. Body and Soul and With a Song in My Heart by Jack Hylton and his orchestra (Victor, $1.25)-A famed British jazzman embroiders neat concert versions of two deserving songs. Dance Records: You're Lucky to Me and Memories of You (Okeh)-For those who like hot jazz with husky singing, husky trumpets. The band is Louis Armstrong...