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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...target on the ground clearly, except by radar." And with "ordinary bombs which fly many miles horizontally as they drop they cannot hit the side of a barn-they cannot even hit a small city with any assurance . . . [But] the guided bomb alters this whole situation ... A great ship alone on the sea is a clear target to radar and a clear target for a guided bomb." Therefore, unless some effective seagoing defense against airborne attack comes along, "the days of the large fighting ships-carriers as well as battleships-are over...
...true that he had played Liszt on the piano at 22 months, written a symphony at eight, received his A.B. from Yale at 14 to become New Haven's youngest grad ever (TIME, Oct. 29, 1945). Since then he had spent three years in earnest study with great Pianist Artur Schnabel. Now, at 18, Kenneth wanted to be judged, he said, "solely by the quality of my music...
Bartok: Concerto No. 2 (Andor Foldes, pianist, with the Lamoureux Orchestra, Eugene Bigot conducting; Vox-Polydor, 2 sides, LP). First recording of this great work, which the late Bela Bartok composed in the same period as the brilliant and bold Quartet No. 4. Stubbornly unrelenting in its harmonies and fierce rhythms, it is sterner stuff than the later Concerto No. 3. Hungarian-American Pianist Foldes gives it a powerful performance. Recording: excellent...
...conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). The score for the ballet now being performed in Russia and by England's Sadler's Wells (TIME, Nov. 14), and what Russian Expatriate Igor Stravinsky calls "Soviet music-bah!" Completely undistinguished, it sounds more often like so-so Soviet Composer Khachaturian than great Composer Prokofiev. Performance and recording: good...
Stravinsky: Orpheus (the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky conducting; Victor, 8 sides, 45 r.p.m.). The tight, dry, subdued but dramatic music for the Stravinsky-Balanchine ballet performed with great success at Manhattan's City Center last year (TIME, May 10, 1948). Performance and recording: excellent...