Word: cello
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little, egg-bald Speaker Sam Rayburn, cello-mellow with satisfaction, last week saw one of his predictions come true...
...feature release this month is the Brahms Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, played by Heifetz and Feuermann with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Ormandy (Album M-815). The Double Concerto was Brahms' last essay in the symphonic form. After finishing it he turned back finally and for good to the smaller forms in which he seemed to be more at home, the chamber sonata, the song, and the piano lyric. And I don't think that I am reading things into the music when I say that the Double Concerto has about it a sort of tiredness with the orchestral...
...Atatürk's farm zoo at Ciftlik. He loves horse racing as well as riding, becomes boyishly animated at meetings. In the evening his recreation is quieter: he likes to have three musicians come to his house and play quartets with him, taking the cello himself. In spite of such relaxation, his countrymen are afraid he will die of over work, as Kamâl Atatürk died of over indulgence. This fear is a tribute, a sign of Turkey's trust...
...Mexico has also produced a pair of torchy ladies who vocalize in the best black-velvet-gown-and-chiffon-handkerchief manner. One is Adelina Garcia, happily represented by a sad ballad called Desesperadamente (OKeh). The other is glamorous Elvira Rios, familiar to Man hattan nightclubbers. Her cello-voice throbs best on Incertidumbre and Vereda Tropical (Decca...
...prolific output of Hector Villa-Lobos has been released this month in an album by Victor. The works chosen, while not the very best of this composer, do give an idea of his versatility and individualty of style. The first number, an Introduction, Prelude and Fugue for eight cellos in the style of Bach, called "Bachinas Brasileras," shows Villa-Lobos's ability to absorb influences and still remain fresh and vital. The cello is his own instrument, and the magnificent sonorities he wrings from it in ensemble approach at times the effect of a full string orchestra, particularly...