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...Divinity Ave., announces a series of record music concerts in its garden, 1-2 p.m., Monday through Friday. Each Wednesday, musical compositions related to art will be heard. This week: Bartok, Quartet no. 3-4; Beethoven, Septet; Mozart, Piano concertos no. 19 and 23; Handel, six concerti grossi; and Mozart, Divertimento no. 3. Next week: Clementi, Piano sonatas; Bartok Two Portraits for Orchestra and Deux Images (Wednesday); Beethoven, Quartets no. 1-2; and Brahms, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra...
...afternoon began with a performance of Vivaldi's Concerto per Orchestre per la solennita di S. Lorenso. The cheerful montony of Vivaldi's Concerti grossi is difficult to sustain, and the orchestra's playing was often marred by a somewhat fuzzy attack. The solist group, with the notable exception of the cellist Clarke Slater, also had an offday, and the strength of the winds only made the Concerto as a whole sound more ragged...
Corelli: Concerti Grossi Opus 6 (Chamber Orchestra of the Societas Musica, directed by Jorgen Ernst Hansen; Vanguard, 3 LPs). An expert in the concerto-grosso form (where a group of solo instruments maintains a dialogue with an orchestral ensemble), Corelli was also the first to relax the strict contrapuntal style of his era, is shown in this recording to have mastered the full scope of string sonorities by making violins sound like a full-voiced choir...
...said Victor Grossi of Chicago's Grossi Bros. Home Appliances last week of the discounting business-which only a few years ago threatened to knock old-line retailers out of many a choice market. Since the war, the discounters have built a $5 billion business selling appliances and other hard goods 20% to 40% below list price. Now that the first bloom is over, theirs is no longer the no-overhead, no-service happy hunting ground that it used to be. Discounting is a rugged business, growing tougher each month...
Part of the discounters' troubles comes from a general slump in the appliance market. With overall sales down some 10% this year, many a discounter, depending on high volume to make his cut-rate prices pay off, is in dire straits. Chicago's Grossi Bros, cites manufacturers' reports that factory sales of automatic washers are down 28%, conventional washers 32%, electric dryers 44%, refrigerators 20%, dishwashers 32%, stoves 32%. Another worry is increasing competition from conventional retailers who, instead of sitting back, cut prices right and left. St. Louis' Famous-Barr Co. has been matching discount...