Word: kostelanetz
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Still treating rumors of her marriage to air-minded Conductor Andre Kostelanetz as a big joke. Diva Lily Poas avowed: "In five years I quit the stage. I quit my music so I can plant my garden, so I can milk...
...that sometimes two movements are played on one ten-inch side, the Boyce works are melodious, inventive, contrapuntally ingenious. They were conducted by Mr. Waldman's part-time associate, Max Goberman, onetime pupil of Leopold Auer, onetime violinist in the Philadelphia Orchestra, at present assistant concertmaster in Andre Kostelanetz' radio orchestra. Messrs. Waldman and Goberman declare that their firm, which will issue an old and a new work every month (first new one: two octets by Dmitri Shostakovich), will put profits, if any, into the making of more & better discs...
...only the indefatigable Jack Benny who keeps the show from being a rather inconsequential hodge-podge. In their efforts to please everyone, the producers have put a great many ingredients in their cinematic soup and include in their cast along with Ida Lupino, Gail Patrick, and Richard Arlen, Andre Kostelanetz, Connie Boswell, the Yacht Club Boys, Martha Raye, Louis Armstrong, McClelland Barclay, Peter Arno, and two "rhythm swimmers" who pretty nearly steal the show with their performance in a sequence of "Whispers in the Dark...
...such a complicated style it was hard to follow the melody at all. . . . We had reached a point where a lot of leaders were arranging their programs to impress other leaders. I decided I would not do that any more." In turning to reconsider symphonic music, it occurred to Kostelanetz that "sixty percent of a symphonic overture is development of the themes. That is intended for musicians and confuses a lot of other people. I think it should be permissible to cut those great works down to the purely melodic passages...
...sombre Romeo & Juliet Overture usually takes 16 min., or four or five sides of phonograph records, to present the strife between Montagues & Capulets, the love between their offspring, the appearance of Friar Laurence, the death of the lovers. By cutting whole pages of repetition and development, Conductor Kostelanetz will give casual listeners this week a pretty good idea what Tchaikovsky was driving at in only 285 sec. flat. Likewise the overture to The Barber of Seville will be reduced from 7 min. to 1½ min. and the late George Gershwin's 16-min. American In Paris will...