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PROKOFIEV: SYMPHONY-CONCERTO FOR CELLO AND ORCHESTRA (RCA Victor). Prokofiev had no affinity for the cello, but with the counsel of Soviet Cellist Mstislav Rostropoyich, he made his cello concerto one of his loveliest works. Here it is impeccably performed by Erich Leinsdorf, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Cellist Samuel Mayes in a recording that also includes Gabriel Fauré's noble little...
...Berry's chapters would have delighted Sherlock Holmes, with illustrations of such occupational trademarks as cellist's callus (on the tip of the left pinkie) and bowler's thumb (with a thickened joint). But one anomaly, known among gypsy fortune tellers as "murderer's thumb," indicates nothing: a wide, short thumb and nail are found as often on professional golfers as on stranglers...
PABLO CASALS (RCA Victor), at 87, is still the world's nonpareil cellist, but those who care to hear how he played in his prime may find here twelve short works recorded...
From Casals to Geezinslaw. Because the mourning period for President Kennedy did not end until this week, Lady Bird has done no official entertaining. Like Jackie, she favors small tables and fairly informal dinner parties. But where Jackie scored a coup by calling Cellist Pablo Casals in to play at the White House, Lady Bird once had a wonderful time employing a country music group called the Geezinslaw Brothers to sing at a party. She also likes to issue invitations by telephone, sometimes winds up by telling the prospective guest, "I'll see you Sunday if the Lord...
...prominence (TIME cover, Feb. 16, 1948), Britten has turned out a varied and impressive body of work, including nine other operas, a ballet, and everything from songs to symphonies, Masses to metamorphoses. Beyond composition, his talents sparkle with equal virtuosity. He is a gifted conductor, and when he accompanied Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich on the piano in the premiere of a Britten cello sonata, one critic called him "the compleat musician, a perpetual challenge to the age of specialization...