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Beethoven: Concerto No. 3 in C Minor (Jose Iturbi, pianist and conductor, with the Rochester Philharmonic; Victor; nine sides). In one of the great concertos, Iturbi again performs his pet virtuoso stunt; mechanically better than the earlier Victor recording by Beethoven Specialist Artur Schnabel...
Mozart: Concerto in D Minor (K. 466) for Piano and Orchestra (Rochester Philharmonic with José Iturbi; Victor; 7 sides; $4.50). Late Mozart with plenty of Romantic sap. The Rochester Philharmonic, which started recording less than a year ago, again proves it is an outfit to be reckoned with. Pianist Iturbi scintillates at the keyboard, conducts the orchestra at the same time...
...Iturbi, turbulent-tempered Spanish conductor-pianist, got on his high horse last week with one angry bound. Reason: he was slated to conduct a program (July 10) at Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell, on which Swingster Benny Goodman was scheduled to play one of his specialties, the Mozart clarinet concerto. From California, Conductor Iturbi telephoned Philadelphia: "[Goodman] is a jazz-band leader. It would be beneath my dignity to conduct for him." (Iturbi has accepted dignified fees for appearing with Bing Crosby on the radio, playing piano accompaniment for Bob Burns' bazooka.) Drawled Benny Goodman: "Well...
Soloists are about as uncooperative as possible in the matter of bringing music into performance. The average soloist would much rather do a concerto like the excessively hard-driven. Tchaikowski Piano Concerto because it is brilliant and showy, and leave it to an occasional Casadesus or Iturbi to do Mozart wrote about twenty-six concertos in all, of which at least half la dozen are among the world's greatest in the form. But one would never know this from what is played in concert. One would remain equally unacquainted with the extraordinary beautiful Schumann concerto. Instead one gets things...
...rival, is the American Guild of Musical Artists (also an A. F. of L. affiliate)-1,800 concert musicians, headed by Baritone Lawrence Tibbett. Boss Petrillo singled out A. G. M. A.'s instrumentalists-including Violinists Jascha Heifetz and Efrem Zimbalist, Pianists Vladimir Horowitz and Jose Iturbi-and commanded them to join A. F. of M. by Labor Day. The alternative: they would be barred from radio and recording. The catch: once in A. F. of M. they would be forbidden to play as soloists with the Boston Symphony. Asked Mr. Petrillo: "Since when is there any difference between...