Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roussel: Quartet in D Major, Op. 45 (Roth String Quartet; Columbia: 6 sides). Sounding like César Franck double-distilled, the late Albert Roussel's subtle, tenuous music is voluptuously performed...
...Symphony No. 5 in E Minor (Czech Philharmonic, Georg Széll conducting; Victor: 10 sides). When Germany annexed the Sudeten area. Prague's Czech Philharmonic was disbanded, its members mobilized. But last week, anxious music-lovers learned that it had reassembled, would tour Great Britain. The least talked-about of the world's great orchestras, the demobilized Czechs had long been famous among record collectors for their matchless woodwinds and brasses. Of Czech Composer Dvořák's "New World" Symphony they give a matchless performance...
Brahms: Quintet for Clarinet and String, Op. 115 (Busch Quartet with Reginald Kell; Victor: 8 sides). One of the world's ranking chamber-music groups gives Brahms's famous Clarinet Quintet an up-to-date recording...
...Girl from Wyoming (by J. van Ostend van Antwerp; produced by John & Jerrold Krimsky) is the creaking American Music Hall's annual horselaugh, garnished with beer & pretzels. The tale of "a Harvard graduate trapped by sex in the purple sage," The Girl from Wyoming provides an uncannily false picture of the West in the days of Diamond Dick saloons, half-breed beauties with roses between their teeth, and the Pony Express...
...finally vanished from men's lives-when the revolution has failed or the plans fallen through, when escape has been frustrated, pardon refused, when even suicide has been prevented and nothing remains but the certainty of execution. The questions that haunt his novels like a strain of sombre music are these: What happens to men when they know they will die with no chance to struggle against their fate? How do they meet their death? What remains in them when the last aspiration of their personal careers, their last hope for their cause, has disappeared? Thus he pictures...