Word: concertos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Lady Beecham was scheduled to play a Mozart concerto with the Royal Philharmonic-but there was a hasty change of plans. She was ill. Impresario Harold Fielding, the Sol Hurok of England, urged Sir Thomas to get a substitute. Sir Thomas tartly refused...
...audience in Drury Lane Theater, he explained: "I am taking no chances with not getting artistic unity where my favorite composer is concerned. . . . Bruno Walter once told me there were only two people who could play a Mozart concerto-and he was one of them. Wild horses won't drag the other name from me. . . . The combination of my wife and myself is one that cannot be duplicated in 24 hours." Quipped the London Star, in a cartoon next day: "I have got tickets for Sir Thomas Beecham's next speech. I hear he will also conduct some...
...Mozart, to play with the Royal Philharmonic next month. Schnabel, who was once Lady Beecham's teacher, declined. He was, he said, leaving London the next day. But, he added slyly, "if it were possible, I would have liked to have taken a chance on a Mozart concerto...
Bartok: Piano Concerto...
...Sandor, with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). First recording of one of the major works of a composer whom the U.S. is only beginning to appreciate (TIME, March 18, 1946). Dying in Manhattan in 1945, Hungarian Bela Bartok put aside other projects to write this concerto, hoping it would help support his widow. He had finished all but the last 17 measures (and had outlined them) when he died. The concerto, melodic and original, is free of the harmonic obtuseness which put listeners off many of his earlier works. Performance: excellent...