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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mozart: Don Giovanni (Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company, Fritz Busch conducting; Victor: 3 volumes, 46 sides). Though issued last spring to record-collectors, the Glyndebourne recording of Mozart's greatest opera waited until this month for its official release. Perfect teamwork and exquisitely styled singing by Baritone John Brownlee and Soprano Louise Helletsgruber help to make it the year's most notable record...
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor (Vienna Philharmonic, Bruno Walter conducting; Victor: 10 sides) and Symphony No. 4 in E Minor (London Symphony, Felix Weingartner conducting; Columbia: 10 sides). Of the month's two Brahms symphonies, Weingartner's Fourth is fine enough to supersede all previous recordings. Walter's First is a good, conservative, slightly draggy performance...
...Jones (Hal Kemp; Victor). Harold Rome's rousing barn dance tune from the new Sing Out The News (see p. 30). Foxtrot-of-the-month...
...Special" articles attacking WPA are not new to readers of the Chicago Tribune, but last month Managing Editor Robert M. Lee decided they could stand some more. For two straight weeks "The World's Greatest Newspaper" was loaded with columns of WPAtrocities, photo-graphs of grinning shovel-leaners, and such headlines...
...other British universities where experimental physics holds high rank have onetime Cavendish men as department heads. Three men (Thomson, Aston and Wilson) were awarded Nobel Prizes while working at Cavendish. Rutherford was already a Nobel Laureate when he went from Manchester to Cavendish. Chadwick got his Nobel Prize a month after he had left Cavendish for Liverpool. Among the foreign bigwigs who have studied at Cavendish are two other Nobelists: Niels Bohr of Denmark and Arthur Holly Compton of Chicago. This bombardment of laurels seems exceedingly likely to continue...