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...down with Manhattan's Little Orchestra Society as a last-minute substitute soloist and dashed off Ravel's tortuous Concerto in G Major as if he owned it. Last week, impassive as ever, Lorin appeared on the Telephone Hour (NBCTV) playing Chopin's Waltz in C-Sharp Minor and an excerpt from Saint-Saën's Fifth Piano Concerto for a whole new army of fans...
Baldwin's Piano Quartet (1957) was a single, balanced movement in C-sharp. Solidly constructed, it had many varied sonorities and not a few Bartokian turns. I was a bit disturbed by the unrelievedly grim and anguished cerebration that the music betrays. I also question the wisdom of starting a quartet with such a lengthy duet for violin and 'cello (which almost guarantees that the flute, being cold, will enter out of tune) and of inserting such a long piano solo in the middle: both the players and the audience will feel cheated. I must single out Lawrence Lesser...
Beethoven's Quartet in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131 received similar treatment. Particularly for this piece, comparison with the Budapest group became unavoidable. Many people insist that Beethoven's chamber music be performed with the masculine vigor of the Budapest, for all its lack of suavity. The Paganini, on the other hand, emphasized grace and subtlety. But from a critical standpoint, the integrity of either approach is unquestionable. The greatness of the Paganini Quartet lies in the perfection of its own musical objectives...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). All-Rachmaninoff program (Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, Symphony No. 2 in E Minor), Frank Black conducting...
...drawing throngs to Elmer's Cocktail Lounge, an obscure nitery in the heart of Chicago's Loop. Unlike most specialists in swinging the classics, Dorothy begins by playing her classics as straight as any Town Hall pianist. When she has polished off Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, Schubert's Serenade or a batch of Chopin Nocturnes in the most acceptable highbrow fashion, Dorothy shuts her eyes. Her feet begin to pound the floor. Her face contorts as if she were in agony. What comes after that is pure Donegan. It has Elmer...