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Kazantzakis, Nikos Saint Francis. (Essandess...
Under the title "Labor of Love," TIME of the April 13 issue refers to Simon and Schuster's "assertation that music publishing is for them ... a labor of love." Neither this nor the other Mr. S. has ever asserted that Essandess publish music as a labor of love. When we published the Schnabel edition of the Beethoven Sonatas in November I bet our sales-manager we'd break even on the venture within 14 months, and at lunch today volunteered to increase that bet. The Godowsky piano arrangements were published in "the same...
Last November "Essandess," as Simon & Schuster sign their chirrupy advertisements, came out with the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas newly edited by Pianist Artur Schnabel. Last January the firm hired a music editor, German-born Emil Hilb, who conducted the Denver Philharmonic in 1932-33. Last week Simon & Schuster published "Four Operatic Masterpieces"*-excerpts from Carmen, Faust, Tannhduser, II Trovatore, transcribed for players of average ability by Pianist Leopold Godowsky. Handsomely illustrated and containing notes on opera plots and composers, the venture, if it clears expenses, will belie Simon & Schuster's assertion that music publishing is for them no more...
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