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Mozart: Concerto No. 3 in E Flat Major for Horn and Orchestra (Aubrey Brain and the BBC Symphony, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; Victor; 4 sides; $2.50) and Duo No. 2 in B Flat Major for Violin and Viola (Jascha Heifetz and William Primrose; Victor; 5 sides; $3). Two out-of-the-way items, finely tooled...
Berlioz: Les Francs-Juges Overture and King Lear Overture (BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; Victor; six sides). Fine first recording of a brace of youthful, passion-tattering works...
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Members of the BBC Symphony, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; Victor; 4 sides; $2.50). A contemporary Englishman weaves dark traceries on a churchly strain, by a 16th-century court composer. Spaciously recorded by BBC's strings...
...vendor at Marble Arch was briskly selling red rubber balls painted with the faces of Hitler and Mussolini. In Leicester Square crowds jammed the first anniversary showing of Gone With the Wind and the first week of Shaw's Major Barbara. On the radio, Sir Adrian Boult was conducting a memorial concert to Sir Hamilton Harty. Two hundred Harrod's employes carried home gas masks, after a gas test in the store. Freckled brown orchids sold at a half crown a bunch in Piccadilly, where the crowds window-shopped before late dinners or after big late teas...
...hardly believe that Julius Harrison can be banning Wagner because of the Nazis. If art is to be affected by anything but itself, good-by to culture." Soon the tempest in a Tarnhelm reached the august portals of British Broadcasting Corp., where wax-mustached Conductor Sir Adrian Boult solemnly clucked: "The BBC contemplates no ban on any musical work by reason of its composer's nationality. BBC's concern is to provide good musical programs...