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Died. Francis Casadesus, 83, French composer (La Chanson de Paris) and patriarch of a famous family of artists, after long illness ; near Paris...
...Washington, the good-music radio station WGMS announced it had the worldwide distribution rights to the recordings of all Library of Congress concerts, including performances by such notables as the Budapest String Quartet, Casadesus, Serkin, Francescatti...
Pianists Robert, Gaby and Jean Casadesus...
...players, from Paderewski and Rachmaninoff to Fats Waller and Jimmy Durante, have hailed their decision. In Carnegie Hall this week, an S.R.O. crowd met to hail some more. On stage stood ten Steinway concert grands, and to their keyboards came squads of concert pianists (among them: Alexander Brailowsky, Robert Casadesus) to crash out in triumphant unison The Star-Spangled Banner, Chopin's Polonaise in A Major, and The Stars and Stripes Forever. It was the most emphatic way anybody could think of to celebrate the zooth anniversary of the U.S. House of Steinway...
...year's new composition, a fiercely atonal concerto by Belgian Composer Raymond Chevreuille, had the contestants in an uproar. Complained one: "Bartok and Prokofiev are duck soup compared to it." Said another, singling out two men who happened to be among the 13 contest judges: "Even Rubinstein and Casadesus couldn't play it." Concours officials agreed to lop off the third movement for the decisive test...