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Musical grave-robbing had been a flourishing trade even before Our Love (from the Romeo and Juliet overture) put Tchaikovsky on the jukeboxes. And nothing could be done about it by the shades of Tchaikovsky, Grieg and Chopin; their works were in the public domain. But supposedly the melodious music of Italy's Giacomo (La Bohème) Puccini, who died in 1924, was still safe...
...student, Elizabeth was always systematic rather than brilliant. She learned to play Schumann, Chopin and Beethoven capably and accurately on the piano, though she preferred Bing Crosby recordings. Her drawings, like the horse she executed on linoleum for Granny Queen's Christmas, were painstaking and thorough. Very different were Sister Margaret's drawings of an imagined character called the Pinkle-Ponkle, who hovered vaguely over towns. "If he were to come down," Margaret replied to all critics, "he'd find worm sandwiches and caterpillar jam-green jam." Like her father, Elizabeth worries a good deal over Margaret...
...Chopin: Concerto No. 2 in F Minor (Artur Rubinstein, with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg conducting; Victor, 7 sides). Chopin, never at his ease in large, rigid forms, played superbly by Rubinstein, always at his best in Chopin. Performance: excellent...
What gave M-G-M an even hungrier feeling was the sensational sale (some 800,000) of Pianist Jose Iturbi's recording of Chopin's Polonaise in A Flat from A Song To Remember. But most of the gravy from this platter went to RCA, which made it. M-G-M decided to cash in itself on recordings by its stars...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 2, Richard Strauss's Death and Transfiguration, Chopin's E-Minor Piano Concerto. Soloist: Pianist Artur Rubinstein. Conductor: Bruno Walter...