Word: busches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...takes to become a blonde comet. Thus reduced to brains and ability, she has adamantly refused to trick them out with fake publicity. She also persists in her right to lead a private life. When her boss's head publicity man revealed her engagement to Scriptwriter Niven Busch before she had informed her closest friends, Sam Goldwyn had to take her aside and tell her the facts of Hollywood life. Said he: "That private life stuff is all right for a Garbo, but you're no Garbo. You're an average American girl...
Beethoven: Grosse Fugue, Op. 133 (Adolf Busch and his Chamber Players; Columbia; 4 sides). A puzzler even to musical savants of the 1820s, the granite-surfaced "grand fugue" which Beethoven composed as a finale to his String Quartet B Flat so irritated audiences that his publisher persuaded him to write a simpler finale, issue his pet fugue separately. Now recognized as a titan among fugues, it comes to life eloquently, pulsingly in the first album of Violinist Adolf Busch's reorganized chamber musicians, who made their U.S. debut earlier this year (TIME, March...
What the audience saw were the externals of the performance. Apple-cheeked Violinist Adolf Busch, acting as concertmaster, nodded his head, lifted his elbow occasionally as he fiddled, but used no baton. Behind this skin-deep sign of novelty lay a sinewy idea: Adolf Busch had chosen to build an orchestra that functioned, not like an orchestra, but like a string quartet...
...picked the hard way. Orchestral players are kept together, after a few rehearsals, by the conductor's beat; quartet players keep together by the kind of intuition that good bridge partners have, developed through countless hours of playing together. When Violinist Busch formed his Chamber Music Players in Switzerland in 1935, he took his own Busch String Quartet as a nucleus, held 70 rehearsals before the orchestra's debut concert. When he reassembled the group in the U.S. last May (with a few changes in personnel), he persuaded the musicians to rehearse for ten months...
...those who know Adolf Busch, such musicianly zeal was no occasion for surprise. German by birth, Swiss by choice, sturdy, boyish Adolf Busch has long plied his art in the U.S., giving music performances that highlighted the music, not the performances. Busch prefers his music straight, as the composer wrote it, hence scorns transcriptions, distrusts editions, tries to ferret out original manuscripts whenever possible...