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...Jesuit Church. Four concerts were to be broadcast, and Toscanini's son-in-law, Vladimir Horowitz, able pianist, was scheduled to make one of his rare concert appearances under the maestro. The other festival conductors were also extra-Axis: England's bald-pated Sir Adrian Boult, Switzerland's Ernest Ansermet, the late Weimar Republic's Bruno Walter (a Jew) and Fritz Busch (an anti-Nazi). The Vatican was to send to Lucerne its nonpolitical Sistine Chapel Choir...
...best spots in the U. S. for summer music. Sponsored now by a committee of Chicagoans, Ravinia is still good. Its opening week, fortnight ago, attracted the largest crowd in its history, more than 10,000 people. Last week, when bolt-upright, beaky, baldish Sir Adrian Boult, music director of British Broadcasting Corp., opened his second week with the Chicago Symphony, a heat wave melted the attendance. Those who braved the swelter heard, and lustily applauded the first complete U. S. performance of a top-notch piece of movie music: a seven-part suite from Arthur Bliss's sound...
...chairman of Anglo-American Oil Co. Dapper, well-nosed, greying, Bliss is rated as a modernist with a sense of humor. Last month Manhattan heard the world premiere of a Bliss piano concerto, showy, noisy, built for big-muscled virtuosos and played (with the Philharmonic-Symphony under Sir Adrian Boult) by just such a pounder: a British onetime prodigy whose concert name is now simply Solomon...
Tschaikowsky: Serenade in C Major (B. B. C. Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult conducting; Victor: 6 sides). First modern recording, superb in its string sonorities, of a popular standby...
Arthur Bliss: Music for Strings (BBC Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult conducting; Victor: 6 sides). A bustling, not-too-modernistic suite by one of the most gifted of contemporary British composers...