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...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani Overture, Samuel Barber's Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Guest: Cellist Raya Garbousova. Conductor: Dimitri Mitropoulos...
...citizen since 1924, Bloch taught in Manhattan, and headed conservatories in Cleveland and San Francisco. But he wanted to compose, not teach. For a time he was subsidized by Cellist Gerald Warburg (son of Banker Felix) and by a wealthy San Francisco family. He retired with his wife and cats to the Oregon seaside in 1941. There, while showing his lute-playing composer daughter how Bach used 48 themes in his Well-Tempered Clavier, he got the theme for the finale of his recent Suite Symphonique. "Suzanne and I were sitting on the little stone steps in the garden...
...Paris, about 20 years ago, three good friends recorded Schubert and Beethoven trios. Their performances are still definitive in chamber music. Pianist Alfred Cortot and Violinist Jacques Thibaud were France's two most distinguished instrumentalists. Spaniard Pablo Casals was the world's most famed cellist...
Deception (Warner) has a plot that might have made a howling good farce-if it had been played for laughs. Bette Davis is a young pianist, reunited after six years with the great love of her life. Cellist Paul Henreid. While Henreid has been missing in wartime Europe, Bette has been studying life, as well as counterpoint, with famous Composer Claude Rains. But Henreid must never, never know. He must be convinced, in spite of crushing evidence to the contrary, that Bette's antique-furnished penthouse is being paid for with the proceeds of her music teaching...
Budapest's secret lies in the magnificence of its 'cellist, Mischa Schneider. Neither Roismann nor Ortenberg, the two violinists, are the equal of others playing their instruments in other quartets, while Kroyt, on the viola, is not a Sander Roth. Through Schneider's excellence and intelligent rehearsal however, they achieve by far the best all over performances you are likely to hear. At Pierian's plebian prices, it is distinctly worth your while...