Word: lener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mozart: Divertimento No. 10 (K. 247) (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Victor: 6 sides) and Divertimento No. 17 (K. 334) (Lener Quartet with Aubrey and Dennis Brain, horns; Columbia: 10 sides). First complete recordings of two early but elegant Mozart items...
Mozart's Quartet in B Flat by the Lener String Quartet of Budapest (Columbia, $6) - This is called the "Hunting Quartet" because a theme in the first movement resembles a hunter's horn. The Adagio, tranquil and in no way suggestive of the skelter of the field, is played by the Leners with expert tenderness...
Brahm's Quartet in B flat by the Lener String Quartet of Budapest (Columbia, $10)?Brahms in a solemn, pastoral mood treated by the Leners in the lush, romantic fashion characteristic of their gypsy confr?...
...scrambled together a list of famed musicians' food fancies. It read: "Toscanini. Kraftbruhe mit Ei (consomme with raw egg). . . . Iturbi, caviar on apples . . . Horowitz, Russian cutlets . . . Stokowski, raw vegetables . . . Hutcheson, mushrooms (he grows and eats them) . . . Cortot, bread and gravy . . . Brailowsky, lump sugar . . . Professor Erskine, raw beef . . . the Leners of the Lener Quartet, orange ice . . . Melchior, green apples . . . Gabrilovitch, sardine oil . . . Gershwin, cereal and milk . . . Schumann-Heink, onions . . . Jeritza, cabbage." Most, if not all of this list is verifiable fact...
MOZART'S QUINTET IN A MAJOR, by the Lener String Quartet and Clarinetist Charles Draper (Columbia, $6)-This makes 27 Lener albums available. The Leners' recent U. S. tour (TIME, Dec. 2) was sponsored by Columbia as a selling device...