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...women looked at their children and wondered about their chances of survival. There were the usual neurotics. In Chicago, public officials received a spate of calls from women complaining that their hair curlers were radioactive, from men suspicious of the olives in their martinis (Chicago Psychiatrist Milton A. Dushkin named the ailment "nucleomitophobia"-fear of the atom). A motorcade of 30 food faddists set out from New York to find new, safe homes in the northern California town of Chico-blandly ignoring the fact that a Titan missile pad, which would presumably be a prime Soviet target, was less than...
Scheduled for Stravinsky's second week, Beveridge Webster had been asked to play the first night when Samuel Dushkin took sick and had to give up the violin concerto originally announced. Young Webster made his emergency performance so technically telling that few could remember it was done in a pinch. For Pianist Webster, this performance with the Philharmonic was more historic than it was for Stravinsky. For him at 28, it capped a career already prodigious...
...fortnight in January he will conduct the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, for another fortnight the Cleveland Orchestra. Contracts are pending whereby Igor Stravinsky may also appear with the bis symphony orchestras on the Pacific Coast. He will play the piano in joint recitals with Samuel Dushkin. the self-effacing violinist who is devoting his career to Stravinsky's music. Last week Stravinsky's autobiography was published in the U. S.* proved to be a terse, candid book, attempting to clarify a record and a credo which have long seemed enigmatic. Also last week it was announced that another...
...League of Composers, long hospitable to all his efforts. Before he returns to Europe in April Stravinsky will have conducted big orchestras in Milwaukee, Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Boston. Other cities will hear him as a pianist when he plays transcriptions of his works with Violinist Samuel Dushkin...
...Stravinsky-Dushkin recitals are scheduled for Minneapolis, Chicago, Toledo, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Carmel, Los Angeles, Montreal, Washington