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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mozart: Quartet in D Minor, K. 421 (Hungarian String Quartet; Victor, 6 sides). One of the greatest of all quartets, and a sensitive and polished performance of it. Recording (on 45-r.p.m. Vinylite): good...
Einem: Concerto for Orchestra (Saxonian State Orchestra, Karl Elmendorff conducting; Deutsche Grammophon, 6 sides). A grotesque and bombastic try by the composer of the opera Danton's Death (TIME, Aug. 18, 1947). Performance and recording: good...
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6 (New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Columbia, 7 sides). Eloquent and powerful, this war-written symphony by the dean of English composers is one of this century's greatest. Performance and recording: good...
Scientist Shapley sought to rise above lesser loyalties. "Whether it is the anti-evolution statutes in some of the American states, or Nazi attacks on the 'Jewish' relativity theory, or the Kremlin's telling the astronomers what cosmogony is good for them and what is bad, the demoralization of the spirit is dangerous." Although he believes that nine-tenths of the Russian scientists are "aware of the social mistake," they can do nothing about it: "The Soviet version of the moment is the worst, because the affliction is nationwide. I wish I had some assurance the malady...
Looking at this good news, some overeager optimists crowed that the recession had reached bottom and that things were already on the upgrade. Most businessmen, eying the continued slump in department-store sales, took a "show me" attitude. They thought it would be well into the fall before anyone would know for sure whether the pickup was only a seasonal summer rise, or the start of a general upsurge...