Word: iturbi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Morgan (Jeanette MacDonald, back on the screen after six years' absence) is a divorcee who sings and falls in love with Jose Iturbi (played, with superb assurance, by Jose Iturbi). Jeanette's three little girls (Jane Powell, Ann E. Todd, Mary Eleanor Donohue), who still idealize their father, oppose the marriage. Everybody is fairly stupid about trying to resolve the trouble, but everybody means awfully well. Also, everybody bursts into song or sits down at the piano with little or no provocation...
Miss MacDonald's voice sounds richer than ever; Senor Iturbi plays much better boogie than he used to; and a couple of the children are very nice. It should have made a pleasant, easy show, but it seems hardly worth all the trouble...
...Mich. The press reacted as though he had burned off their heads with an acetylene torch; Congress and the Justice Department jostled each other in their rush to investigate him. He plunged on, hauled the nation's big symphony orchestras into the union, and with them artists like Iturbi, Spalding and Zimbalist. "They're mine," he cried. "What's the difference between Heifetz and a fiddler in a tavern...
...with his flashy Gayane Ballet Suite and his trashy Piano Concerto. Beethoven, usually voted a top favorite in most U.S. bull-session polls, made the list with two piano sonatas, the Moonlight and Pathétique, neither of which rates tops with highbrow critics. Pianist José Iturbi led the single record best-sellers with Debussy's Clair de Lune and a firm version of Chopin's much-mutilated A-Flat Polonaise...
...every Red Seal record made in America" from 1930 to 1944. He had "played ping-pong most of the night with Jascha Heifetz (a good player and a bad loser); jumped naked and shivering into Albert Spalding's icy pool at 7 a.m. . . . soothed the childish rages of Iturbi . . . softened and diverted the bovine stubbornness of Flagstad; ignored Pons's sulks and Moore's tantrums. . . ." This week, in a book called The Other Side of the Record (Knopf; $3.50), O'Connell unloaded "the accumulated irritations of years...