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...Francisco has a new tradition: street musicians. Along with the cable cars, that famous bridge, the bay and the sourdough bread, the city now has a sweet sonic oddity: strains of Bach, Mozart and Telemann being tootled on street corners. The players are young, serious and usually talented. Without exception, they are determined. It takes tenacity to concentrate on a fugal entry as cable cars rattle past, stray dogs water the violin case, and an "occasional drunk keeps insisting on pop tunes...
...Beethoven more than the people in front of Macy's," says Violinist Robert Dubow. "Bach is too intellectual for the street," reports Bassoonist Greg Barber. "Besides, his line is long and threadlike. It can easily be lost when a truck roars by." Adds another street musician: "Everyone understands Mozart." Of the all-string works, Haydn's "London" trios get the biggest audiences and make the most money...
...Toscanini and the BBC Symphony Orchestra created a series of recordings that were like valentines to each other. Here are five of them: Brahms' Tragic Overture, Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 1, the Weber-Berlioz Invitation to the Dance and, for the first time on American LP, Mozart's Magic Flute Overture and Rossini's La Scala di Seta Overture. As usual, the maestro's familiar musical gusto is the controlling factor, augmented by the expressive freedom he accorded the BBC first-desk men in their solo work. There is also a certain pervasive ease...
...Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4; Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor (Jascha Heifetz, Sir Thomas Beecham, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Seraphim). Although Heifetz could sometimes be showy in the exercise of a most prodigious violin technique, his tone never lost its radiant silkiness even in the most difficult music. In these two performances (dating, from 1947 and 1949 respectively), the breathtaking Heifetz sound profits from Sir Thomas Beecham's restraining influence...
...Mozart: Sonata No. 9; Haydn: Sonata No. 34 and Andante and Variations in F Minor (Wanda Landowska: Victrola). These three tender, highly personal performances-not at the harpsichord, but at the piano-were recorded in the last three years of Landowska's life. Haydn's Andante and Variations is especially endearing for its full measure of romantic freedom...