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Maggie had put on her Faust with a lot of confidence. One old friend, Violinist Fritz Kreisler, told her, "You have put the pearls on a string." Most listeners found that they enjoyed the old pearls from Gounod's score more than they appreciated the new string-Poet Spender's often banal narration. But everyone agreed it was a bang-up show. Producer Maggie, who at 61 vows each year of singing on the concert stage will be her last, was happily thinking about taking her Faust on tour...
Fresh Flavors. In one of the book's 45 essays, Cardus compares Dr. W. G. Grace, the bearded, burly Babe Ruth of cricket who scored 54,986 runs in 43 years, to Prime Minister Gladstone, Violinist Fritz Kreisler, Bach and Falstaff; he surmises that even the champion's name was foreordained ("Could Grace conceivably have [played like] Grace, known as W. G. Blenkinsop...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Fritz Kreisler, a rare radio performer, playing Mozart's Concerto No. 4 in D Major, his own Liebesleid and Miniature Viennese March...
...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Menotti Salta's Nostalgic Serenade, Goldmark's Overture to In Springtime, Debussy's Nuages and Fêtes, Borodin's Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor, Fritz Kreisler's Sicilienne et Rigaudon, Prelude and Allegro. Conductor: Frank Black...
Last week, in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, slim, courtly Jacques Thibaud, looking much younger than his 66 years, made his first U.S. appearance in 15 years. In the audience were Violinists Fritz Kreisler, Mischa Elman and Nathan Milstein. Concertgoers used to the opulent Russian-style fiddling of Heifetz and Milstein had to pay sharp attention to Thibaud's delicate and smaller tone, but the effort was worth it. Thibaud played the violin solo in Lalo's melodious, tricky-rhythmed Symphonie Espagnole with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. He had to come on stage six times to take bows...