Word: concertos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compose. He spends his days combing the beach looking for agates, and mushroom-hunting in the salal and salmonberry woods nearby. In the huge living room of his house, near a life-size woodcarving of Christ, he works nervously, but neatly, as always, on a piano concerto. He and his wife Marguerite find time to play with his half-dozen cats. Says he: "We can learn much from them. I wish they could teach me to relax...
Beethoven: Concerto in D Major (Josef Szigeti, violinist, with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). The second time Szigeti and Walter have teamed up in Beethoven's only violin concerto, again with happy results. Recording: good...
Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks Concerto (Dumbarton Oaks Festival Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky conducting; Keynote, 4 sides). Pleasant latter-day Stravinsky, but baked in only the embers of the once-powerful fire that produced Petrouchka and The Firebird. Recording: good...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Fritz Kreisler, a rare radio performer, playing Mozart's Concerto No. 4 in D Major, his own Liebesleid and Miniature Viennese March...
...little unnerving to 65-year-old Composer Stravinsky, and when he saw the papers, he denied that he had written the arrangement: he had only okayed it. Stravinsky once wrote an elephant's polka for Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey, and a jazz concerto for Woody Herman (neither had the common touch). He will get double the going Tin Pan Alley rates for Summer Moon, and a 50-50 split on movie rights. Said he: "According to the newspapers, the only reason I wrote this arrangement was to make money. I am very glad if I do make money...