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Sibelius' Second Symphony by Robert Kajanus and Symphony Orchestra (Columbia, $7.50) - The great Finn's music is fast receiving the recognition it deserves. The present recording, played by Sibelius' friend and compatriot, is said to have been instigated, partly financed, by the Finnish Government...
Schubert's Concerto in A Minor by 'Cellist Caspar Cassado and Symphony Orchestra under Sir Hamilton Harty (Columbia, $6)-A compatriot and pupil of Famed Pablo Casals contributes an excellent arrangement of a sonata written for piano and arpeggione (string instrument between a viola and a 'cello in size; invented in Vienna in Schubert's day' seldom played...
...public knows the names of Conductor Pierre Monteux, Pianist Alfred Cortot and a few others. Of the 97 principals in the Metropolitan Opera Company, in recent years there has been but one French singer, Basso Léon Rothier. Last week Basso Rothier was joined by a compatriot-Tenor Antonin Trantoul, a native of Toulouse and War veteran whose singing has won high praise in Paris, Italy, South America. He sang Faust in the Metropolitan's 200th performance of the Gounod opera. He was weak-voiced, uneven and unduly doddering as the aged philosopher. Transformed by Mephistopheles, stripped...
...courts, and lived the kind of life so many others are living today? What is the answer of the Church to that? . . ." Nellie Melba (Mrs. Nellie Porter Armstrong), as everyone knows, invented her professional name, using the first letters of her native Melbourne. Florence Mary Wilson, a compatriot, did the same with "Australia," dubbed herself Austral shortly before she made her debut at London's Covent Garden. That was seven years ago. Since then, in England and the U. S., she has won great applause in concerts, oratorios, operas...
...will reach the U. S. in September, speaking little English. Since taking honors at Vienna's Academy of Music, he has held posts with the Vienna Philharmonic choir, the Berlin opera school, the Württembergische Landstheater in Stuttgart, the Wiesbaden Opera. Der Rosenkavalier with Mme. Jeritza, compatriot, whom he has never met, may introduce Herr Rosenstock to Manhattan...