Word: concertos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...classical artist demands and so often gets Rubinstein's high minimum guarantee ($3,500 a concert), but he is a good investment. At one concert in Lincoln, Neb. last year, Rubinstein earned $5,400 as his share of the box-office receipts. His Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 was Victor's 1946 best-selling classical album. The $85,000 he collected for three days' piano playing for the movie I've Always Loved You is still a Hollywood record...
...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Vivaldi-Mistowski's Concerto in G Minor for Strings, Mozart's Haffner Symphony, Richard Strauss's Suite from Der Rosenkavalier. Conductor: Alfred Wallenstein...
...score of it had gone astray somewhere between Athens, Cairo and Jerusalem. Another copy arrived by air only three days before the concert. But Bernstein got the yoman orchestra through it deftly. That called for five bows. Then he played the solo part of Ravel's Piano Concerto, conducting from the piano. Some of the more critical in the audience thought they had heard better performances, but if Bernstein had played Pop! Goes the Weasel, the audience would have loved him just as much...
Mozart: Quartet in E Flat Major for piano and strings (George Szell, piano, with members of the Budapest String Quartet; Columbia, 6 sides). Although not one of his great quartets, this delightful, sparkling slice of Mozart is almost a miniature piano concerto. The Cleveland Orchestra's conductor gives a crisp but playful assist at the piano. Performance: excellent...
Samuel Barber: Capricorn Concerto (Saidehberg Little Symphony, Daniel Saidenberg conducting; Concert Hall Society, 4 sides). Scored in Bach's concerto grosso style for flute, oboe and trumpet solo plus strings, it smacks more of Stravinsky than Bach, has a sensuous eeriness typical of some of Barber's later works...