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Kabalevslcy: Sonata No. 3, Opus 46 (Vladimir Horowitz, piano; Victor, 4 sides). Contemporary Soviet Composer Dmitri Kabalevsky's melodic, if Mussorgsky-ish, piece is more Pianist Horowitz' meat than the Mozart Sonata in F Major, K. 332, also available this month. Both recordings: good...
...Ezra and Nehemiah, more than two thousand years ago, the Jews had had their Knesset Hagdola (Great Assembly). The members of its soth Century successor decided also to call it the Knesset. But what should they call themselves? Should they use the ancient word ish (man)? A spokesman for the orthodox Jews objected: "Let's leave that alone until we restore our past glories." They finally chose the word haver, which is colloquial Hebrew...
Along Fifth Avenue (music by Gordon Jenkins; lyrics by Tom Adair; sketches by Charles Sherman & Nat Hiken; produced by Arthur Lesser) is anything but Fifth Avenue-ish, and not often much credit to Broadway. An all-too-intimate revue, it bawls out brash ditties, features loud-colored, low-cut skits, winks its eye and wiggles its hips in such decorous Fifth Avenue spots as Washington Square and Rockefeller Center...
Miss Gordon played the wife of a celebrated, swinish, Svengali-ish actor who has trained her to be his servile leading lady. Despite his mistreatment of her as both wife and actress, she remains loyal to him. After his florid death, she remains loyal to his memory. He had prophesied that she could not act without him, and in duty bound she goes steadily downhill-till about four minutes before the final curtain...
...Most Alia Names Fittin Just Wonn Line, Even Konstadin Anagnostopoulos; Butt 'Jno' Ish Noe More-Alway 'John...