Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hindemith: Mathis der Maler (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Hindemith conducting; Capitol-Telefunken, 6 sides). Hindemith does not prove that composers are the best conductors of their own music, but this is still a notable performance of a fine work. Recording: good...
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 (the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Mendelssohn's trip to Scotland was almost as happy musically as his tour to Italy, which produced Symphony No. 4; Rodzinski here gives the "Scotch" a good piping. Recording: fair...
Mozart: Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299 (Rene Le Roy, flute; Lily Laskine, harp; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor, 6 sides). Not particularly a Mozart masterpiece, it is nicely performed by a master of Mozart. Recording: good...
...abnormal impulses by nerve-cutting operations such as vagotomy, or cut out diseased thyroids and hunks of stomach. But Surgeon Ogilvie has what he regards as more effective treatment: proper doses of idleness, for "idleness is a part of function." A change of occupation is often a good thing, too. The mind that has been driven too hard may do its best work when tension is relaxed and it is allowed "to find the natural paths that shape themselves in idle periods." Ogilvie adds: "Science is advanced further in a shorter time by the informal chatter of a few like...
With competition in the U.S. television industry growing hotter by the day, manufacturers were cudgeling their brains for new ways to trim costs and prices. In Chicago, Admiral Corp.'s quick-stepping President Ross Siragusa thought he knew a good way to do it. On the big, fancy-looking console jobs, about one-third of the cost went into furniture. Why not start cutting there...