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...months later Pianist Alfred Cortot visited Berlin, shortly thereafter left his job as professor of the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris to become Vichy's secretary for music. He signed an order banning Jews from all orchestras in France. Madame Lubin is now in a collaborators' concentration camp near Bordeaux; Lifar and Cortot are under house arrest...
Rewards. For those who resisted Nazi favors, things were looking up. Both Casals and Thibaud, waiting for the tribunal to meet, were passing their time concertizing in France, Switzerland and England. Conductor Paul Paray, who defied Cortot by resigning from the Lyon radio symphony rather than fire Jews, announced that he was off to the U.S. to conduct the Boston Symphony...
...turned to the slight, gemlike songs of Debussy, Berlioz and Faure. After her divorce in 1931, she toured England and France with Pianist Alfred Cortot. She sang so artfully that listeners who knew no French thought that they knew what she was singing...
Chief among these in world prestige was probably the brilliant 66-year-old pianist Alfred Cortot. He had a bad record. An outspoken advocate of Vichy, he had been named State Director of Music under Petain, had played widely in Germany. Last week Cortot was released from F.F.I, custody because of age, failing health, and a record of occasional efforts to keep young French musicians from service in Hitler's labor battalions...
...Artur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz, Emanuel Feuermann; Victor; 8 sides). One of the most ingratiating of all chamber-music compositions, Schubert's Trio, in a previous recording by Cortot, Thibaud and Casals, was once a sensational bestseller, today is out of print. Victor's new version, with the latest, most scrupulous sound engineering, is one of the finest chamber-music recordings ever made. Rubinstein, Heifetz and Feuermann (each a famed concert soloist) play its lilting melodies with virtuoso finish and a subtle teamwork seldom heard when prima donnas of this caliber get together...