Word: masters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the two weeks at Lucerne the parade of participating talent was like an all-star game: Menuhin, Casadesus, Sargent, Francescatti, Ansermet, and Kletski. But above all these towered the stumpy, leonine figure of Edwin Fischer. Known to Americans mainly for his recordings of Bach, the sixty-year-old master branched out into other types of music. One evening, he played trios of Beethoven, Brahms, and Tehaikovsky. On two other occasions he played the last sonatas of Beethoven as they have seldom been played before. The greatest of all, however, was his performance of the Emperor Concerto a performance which...
Norman Granz, no relation, with his horde of riffing saxophones and screaming trumpets, descends on Symphony Hall tonight for the only Boston showing of "Jazz At The Philharmonic." If you've heard the records this collection of master craftsmen have made in J. At The P. Albums numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4, you know what to expect. Their music is involved, brilliant, inventive, and fast-paced to the point of bewilderment. The personnel comprises the highest, fastest, and loudest instrumentalists in the business...
Imagination and his handy penmanship, however, altered Charlie's destiny. He faked a civil service rating and got a job as deputy in the county jail. Deftly he removed his criminal record from the sheriff's files. He awarded a Master of Arts degree to himself and carried around a photostatic copy. With the credentials of a dead attorney he secured admission to the California bar. To reinforce the illusion, he attended a few law classes at Loyola University in Los Angeles...
Next day, Foreign Minister Molotov echoed his master's voice (with some notably rough overtones). Before a packed house of U.N.'s General Assembly, he kept talking of collaboration between "states of widely different political structures," seven times urged "peaceful competition" between different social systems. At length, and almost pleadingly, he spoke of Russia's devastation. He even displayed sparks of humor; he said, of the World Federation of Trade Unions: "Is it proper that it has ... the same terms of representation on ECOSOC as ... the National Association of Dried Fruits Retailers?" His only concrete proposal...
Last week some of the A-plus results came out in book form (Renoir Drawings, Bittner; $15). Renoir's freshman efforts were a touch too perfect-for a while he tried to imitate the exactitude of Ingres -but by his sophomore year the middle-aged master's drawings were true-to-life and also true to the principles which had been formulated by Poet Charles Baudelaire : "A good drawing is not a hard, cruel, motionless line enclosing a form like a straitjacket. Drawing should be like nature, living and restless. . . . Nature shows us an endless series of-curved...