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...return from New York and the impeccable taste of Bruno Walter to the loud vulgarity of the Boston Symphony is an experience that puts a critic's heart into his work. I say this not out of any malice but rather as a reaction to the most poorly conceived and ill performed concert Symphony Hall has heard in several years. Unfortunately, Dr. Koussevitzky's return to the podium marked the disastrous evening...
...Bruno Richard Hauptmann's son Manfred was left $500 by an 85-year-old New Jersey spinster who didn't know him but pitied him for being "handicapped" and wanted to help him in "his unequal struggle for existence." The twelve-year-old son of the Lindbergh kidnapper was last in the public eye in 1940, when he got $15,000 in Rochester, N.Y. for accident injuries. His benefactress also left $3,000 "for the care and protection of cats...
...find, and cooks two hearty Yugoslav dishes - sarma (stuffed cabbage) and burek (meat and onion, wrapped in thin dough). Says she: "To look at me I still have plenty of flesh." When she made her debut in Yugoslavia at 19, she could sing only in Croatian. When Bruno Walter discovered her in Vienna, she had also learned to sing in German. Walter introduced her to Toscanini, who chose her to sing Verdi's Requiem at Salzburg in 1937. The Met brought her to the U.S. three months later. She knew neither Italian nor English. After ten harried weeks with...
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto In E Minor (Nathan Milstein and the Phil harmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia, 7 sides). Milstein 's virtuosity gives added sheen to melodic Mendelssohn music. Performance: good...
Samuel Barber: Symphony No. I (New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). Arid, intellectualized modern music. Performance: good...