Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Victor's feature release for March is the Toscanini-Horowitz recording of the Brahms B-flat Piano Concerto (Album M-740). Without going into a detailed criticism of the concerto--I for one consider it inferior to the best Mozart and Beethoven concertos--there is no doubt but that it is conceived on as lavish and massive a scale as any work of its kind ever has been since. The profusion of themes, the copiousness of orchestration, the "tiny" sherzo thrown in, the extreme energy bursting forth at every point, all make of it something quite unique in concerto literature...
...Beethoven String Guartet Opus 18 No. 6, one of the most spontaneous and delightfully humorous of the early quartets, to which the recording by the Coolidge Quartet (Album M-745) does full justice. . . . Also of a genial and unpretentious nature is the Corelli Concerto Grosso No. 11 in B-Flat, in dance suite form, recorded on a single Victor record (No. 12587) by Arthur Fiedler and his Sinfonietta. The finding of this concerto by the scholarly efforts of Mr. Fiedler is typical of the great practical service of musicologists like him who every year rescue so much lost music from...
...Maugham tale could have no better setting than the swank Muthaiga Country Club on a cooling hill outside flat, sunny Nairobi, capital of Kenya Colony. Scarcely one hour's drive from the haunts of zebra, giraffe and hartebeest, the Mut-haiga's members have built themselves a sporting retreat as refreshing as those they remember in Old England. From the club terrace, after nightfall, visitors may watch red, green and white fireflies flickering over the Kikuyu grass lawns...
...contests, the Professor has introduced the Slo-Gro Triple-or-Nothing, Take-it-or-Stuff-it, True-Blue Americana Quiz, on which contestants have a chance to make $50,000, provided they can figure out such problems as getting the cube root of 11,682⅞ within three seconds flat. No one as yet has won any prizes...
Sometimes Editor Wertenbaker seems to beat his breast a little too fiercely over the past sins of Yankee imperialism. But this is a question of emphasis. To critics who fear that the new doctrine of hemispheric solidarity may supplant the Monroe Doctrine, he gives a flat no. "What was done at the Havana conference . . . did not make the Monroe Doctrine multilateral. The Monroe Doctrine was, and is, a unilateral declaration of U. S. policy against Europe. . . . The new doctrine ... is multilateral and does two things...