Word: last
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, a teleprinter in the Los Angeles Mirror-News chattered excitedly with a strange bit of copy. "The following," began a story punched out 6 miles west, "is released by Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, 4614 Sunset Boulevard. Attention city desks. Advance release. 'Mistletoe is for kissing, not for eating.' " Thereafter followed 200 words, drafted by Childrens Hospital, to the effect that mistletoe is poisonous when taken internally. What was remarkable about the story was not the toxicity of mistletoe but the transmission. One of the publicity man's newer gimmicks in his tireless assault...
...minutes one evening last week, an audience in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall watched a short (5 ft. 6 in.), pudgy man in white tie and tails play a 1737 Guarneri del GesÙ violin. In that time Virtuoso Isaac Stern, backed by the New York Philharmonic, worked his way through three separate concertos (Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Brahms's Concerto for Violin and Cello, Alban Berg's Violin Concerto), giving each of them the luminous tone and the warmly lyric sentiment that are his specialties...
Clear hit of the evening was Berg's difficult twelve-tone piece, last played in Manhattan ten years ago. Moved by the death of the 18-year-old daughter of a close friend, Composer Berg interrupted work on his opera Lulu to write the concerto in the summer of 1935, died before he could hear it performed. A tenderly elegiac work, it spreads a filigreed web of wispy lyric phrases, works up to a climax drawn from a phrase of a Lutheran hymn (Es ist genug), ends with the violin soaring softly above the fading orchestra. Last week...
...down to give some time to teaching, but he is now in the midst of a countrywide tour, will play some 80 concerts by the end of April, then pack his Guarneri and head for his second tour of Russia (six weeks) before hitting the European summer festival circuit. Last week Stern was not in the least bothered at having to play three concertos on one program. In Israel, he recalls, he once played two concertos at a 5 p.m. concert, another three at 9 p.m. Says he, "I'm like the girls...
...black-eared fox terrier on the cover of 60 Years of Music America Loves Best is a reminder that only the most famous U.S. recording company could have put together such an assortment. But the hit album (last week it was selling 5,000 copies a day) also expressed the Janus headed personality of the man who conceived it-a lanky, Viennese-born ex-advertising man and music critic named George Richard Marek...