Word: kostelanetz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ferde Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite (DM 1038) is a highly superficial programistic piece depicting various views of the Grand Canyon such as "Sunrise" complete with twittering flute. Of the three recordings of this work, the new one by Toscanini and the NBC surpasses both the older Whiteman and Kostelanetz performances in technical proficiency, but, like so many Toscanini readings of modern American music, lacks the sympathetic treatment provided by Whiteman. Recording is fair...
...show. Gone were the moo and the bell, the bleating ballad. Only familiar prop was Canadian-born, 36-year-old Conductor Percy Faith. Regarded as one of radio's top arrangers, he is equally deft with light classics and new jazz. His formula for a new contentment: more Kostelanetz-like arrangements of Gershwin and Rodgers, fewer old soothers like Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes...
...musical parallel to the history of the American Negro"); Perfume Suite ("each section . . . tries to convey the essence of a particular fragrance"). Until late in the evening, when the band got back to being itself on easy-riding bounce tunes, the whole thing sounded more like Andre Kostelanetz than a night in Harlem. Four sessions in Carnegie Hall had had an unmistakably mopey, not to say arty, effect on the Duke...
...Kostelanetz Conducts (Andre Kostelanetz and Orchestra; Columbia, 8 sides). Music's gingerbread man fancies up St. Louis Blues, Stormy Weather and others. Performance: fair...
...Paris (Columbia, 4 sides). ¶Porgy and Bess, fancied up in a symphonic version by Fritz Reiner and the Pittsburgh Symphony (Columbia, 6 sides), and more glossily by Fabien Sevitzky and the Indianapolis Symphony (Victor, 6 sides), is best in its original operatic mold (Decca, 14 sides). ¶Andre Kostelanetz spreads his corn syrup over The Music of Gershwin (Columbia, 8 sides...