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Cold Garrets & Warm Music. A considerable amount of immortal music has been written in cold garrets, with an empty larder in the background. Richard Wagner and Felix Mendelssohn lived comfortable lives, but Mozart, after a life of penny-counting, was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave, and Franz Schubert sold his songs for as little...
...wife and two sons. 20 and 16, another. He has been separated ever since from his wife, a Spanish singer named Lina Llubera whom he met on his first trip to Manhattan. Prokofiev now lives in a Moscow apartment with a tall, intense young writer named Mira Mendelssohn, who helped him on the libretto for War and Peace, the Tolstoyan opera which had its tryout last March. Stalin had promised to let Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera produce it, but after its Moscow premiere, War and Peace was hastily withdrawn for reworking. Soviet critics objected mostly to Mira...
...Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto In E Minor (Nathan Milstein and the Phil harmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia, 7 sides). Milstein 's virtuosity gives added sheen to melodic Mendelssohn music. Performance: good...
...fine performance as a psycho-neurotic refugee by Eleanora Mendelssohn and some good murder scenes are the main features of "The Secret Room." These are also a pair of unusually good child actresses, whose lines and behavior almost completely avoid that theatrical sin, cuteness...
...prelude, Amsterdamers had done a little Dutch-cleansing of their own, kicking out five Dutch collaborationists. They had also removed the blue paint which the Germans had smeared over the names of "non-Aryan" composers on the concert-hall frieze; now the names of Mendelssohn and Mahler were again visible...