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Other top raters: the Philadelphia Orchestra, unsponsored, with Eugene Ormandy conducting (Sat. 5 p.m., E.S.T., CBS); the Cleveland Symphony, George Szell conducting (Sat. 6 p.m., E.S.T., Mutual); Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinees, returning Nov. 16 (Sat. 2 p.m., E.S.T., ABC) the Telephone Hour, with such artists as Fritz Kreisler, Lily Pons, Yehudi Menuhin (Mon. 9 p.m., E.S.T...
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Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Fritz Kreisler, guest soloist...
...debut in Manhattan in 1888, the audience applauded and shouted so wildly that it had to be forcibly calmed by police. (Almost unnoticed in the excitement was another musician making his U.S. debut on the same program: a 13-year-old Viennese violinist billed as Master Fritz Kreisler.) Rosenthal's grand manner meant first-rate playing, but it also had plenty of the showman in it. Once, in Cincinnati, he played Liszt's Don Juan Fantaisie so thunderously that a piano leg fell off. As Rosenthal described it: "I had to play without the pedals. I finalized...
Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer (Carol Brice, contralto, with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). In the first recording of these six songs of unrequited love, written by Mahler when he was 23 Koussevitzky's protégée, Carol Brice (TIME, March 11) reveals a promising, big, warm voice. Performance: good...