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...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...
HAYDN'S QUARTET IN D MAJOR, by the Lener String Quartet of Budapest (Co- lumbia, $4.50)-The Leners play particularly the Largo with surpassing tenderness...
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...
...Lener String Quartet comes from Budapest. Its members are Jeno Lener, first violin, Joseph
...Smilovits, second violin, Sandor Roth, viola, Imre Hartman, 'cello. They played in the Budapest Royal Opera until the outbreak of the 1919 Revolution when they retired to a distant Hungarian village, devoted themselves for two years to the cult of chamber music. Now the Lener is one of the world's first string organizations. In Manhattan last fortnight its tender, lush playing of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven won noisy approval from the audience, superlatives from critics; made recent performances by the London String Quartet seem over-fastidious, bloodless by comparison. The Roth Quartet, however, also from Budapest, remains for most...