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...People. No matter what they performed, it would be hard to resist a show that included Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Violinist Isaac Stern, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, and such vocalists as Marian Anderson, Renata Tebaldi, Zinka Milanov, Risë Stevens, Blanche Thebom, Roberta Peters, Mildred Miller. Jan Peerce, Jussi Bjoerling, Leonard Warren. What they performed was aimed at the millions-arias from Pagliacci, The Tales of Hoffmann, Tosca, Carmen, a Chopin Polonaise, a movement from the Mendelssohn violin concerto. It was seen or heard by an estimated 23 million people...
...more than half a century Gushing vanes pirouetted in the wind. Finally, in the 19203, the work of Waltham's anonymous craftsmen was discovered by folk-art collectors. Edith Gregor Halpert, founder of Manhattan's Downtown Gallery, busily stripped the New England skyline of more than a hundred vanes, sold them to museums. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art sent some abroad in an exhibition of American folk art. Seeing the show in Paris, Pablo Picasso exclaimed: "Cocks have always been seen, but never as well as in American weather vanes...
...Hulking Gregor Piatigorsky, topflight cello virtuoso, would like to see younger musicians get ahead, too. But last week in San Diego, where he paused between concert tours, Cellist Piatigorsky took a swipe at an old method of helping young artists-musical competitions. Said he: "I shall never again be a contest judge. Too often they are downright absurd. Why insult and discourage 14, let us say, to honor or help one?" The last time he judged a contest. Piatigorsky said, he and his fellow judge, Violinist Jascha Heifetz, heard a singer, a flutist, a clarinetist and a composer...
Strauss: Don Quixote (Boston Symphony conducted by Charles Munch; Victor). A fairly beery treatment of the Cervantes tragicomedy by one of the world's great orchestraters. The Boston Symphony (plus Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, Violinist Richard Burgin, Violist Joseph de Pasquale) gives it a foamy performance...
Another acceptable theory has it that the rise of Gregor Malenkov is also reflected in the Purges. Many of the convicted deviationists were old guard Party members and carried potential opposition to Malenkov's struggle for Stalin's inheritance. There is also some evidence that Malenkov, not Beria, ordered the arrest of the accused Moscow doctors. It nows seems that the Kremlin has made an irrevocable decision to finish another task that Hitler started. There are 2,500,000 Soviet Jews...