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Brahms: Double Concerto in A Minor (Georg Kulenkampff, violin; Enrico Mainardi, cello; L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Carl Schuricht conducting; English Decca, 8 sides). This performance of Brahms's fussy but formidable work is not up to the Thibaud-Casals or Heifetz-Feuermann versions. Recording: good...
...every ten people in the U.S. suffers from some major form of allergy, such as asthma. One out of every two may suffer at one time or another from a minor form, such as simple hives. Beginning with these estimates, Manhattan Allergist Harry Swartz wrote a book, published this week, called Allergy: What It Is and What to Do About It (Rutgers University Press...
Died. Chalmers (Bill) Cissell, 45, who lasted a decade as a big-league shortstop after being bought in 1927 by the Chicago White Sox for $123,000, one of the highest prices ever paid for a minor-league ballplayer; of a heart ailment; in Chicago...
Last Friday and Saturday, as a warmup for the Bach Mass, the Glee Club and Choral Society joined forces with Leonard Bernstein and the Boston Symphony in a powerful and awe-inspiring performance of Mahler's Symphony in C minor...
Koussevitzky's interpretation of Bach's Mass in B Minor yesterday afternoon and evening in Symphony Hall would not have satisfied a purist. The retards on cadences were exaggerated, the orchestral part at the end of "Et Resurrexit" was omitted and so was the first Osanna. The soles were taken more slowly than regulation, particularly the bass aria, "Et in Spiritum Sanctum," for it is quite frankly a pastoral dance, inspired by the word "Vivificantem" (Giver of life...