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...Falla: El Amor Brujo (the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting, with Nan Merriman, mezzo-soprano; Victor, 6 sides; the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting, with Carol Brice, contralto; Columbia, 6 sides). Reiner's version of this Debussy-scented Andalusian suite, which includes the popular Fire Dance, is less vivid than Stokowski...
...pile of coins. But its connoisseurs find in the harpsichord rarefied and rustling harmonies, comparable to a choir of flutes and mandolins. When Landowska began, nobody was writing harpsichord music; it was a dead art. Composers like Francis Poulenc (her student for a year) and the late Manuel De Falla wrote harpsichord music for her. Said she: "It was a battle, you have no idea what a battle it was, to impose the harpsichord upon the musical world. When I started before 1900, the tradition...
Died. Manuel de Falla, 69, famed Spanish composer, who drew from the folk songs and rhythms of his native land inspiration for his ballets (The Three-Cornered Hat, Love, the Sorcerer), whose name has become a synonym for contemporary Spanish music and whose works are a part of the permanent repertory of the world's top musicians; after long illness; in Alta Gracia, Argentina...
...With No Regret." A quarter of an hour later the official ceremonies marking the first anniversary of F.D.R.'s death began on the broad front porch of the Big House. Dutchess County youngsters perched in a tall tree; servants peeked from the house windows; Falla scuttled out and snuggled at Harry Truman's feet...
While at Juilliard, she won the 1944 Naumburg Foundation competition, was given a free Town Hall debut last March. Conductor Fritz Reiner heard her later, in a private recital, got her to record De Falla's El Amor Brujo and Gustav Mahler's symphonic song, Eines Fahrenden Gesellen. It was actually Reiner who gave Carol her start, but Serge Koussevitzky's enthusiastic ' helping hand last week assured her future...