Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Haydn: Symphony No. 80 in D Minor and Symphony No. 67 in F Major (Orchestra of the New Friends of Music, Fritz Stiedry conducting; Victor: One vol., 9 sides). Of the five unpublished Haydn symphonies that Musicologist Alfred Einstein dug out of European libraries last summer (TIME, March 6), two are here recorded for the first time. Both are good-vintage Haydn, both rather coarsely and pedantically performed...
Chopin: Sonata in B Minor, Op. 58 (Alexander Brailowsky. pianist; Victor: 6 sides). With the Beethoven and Schumann above, a top-notch addition to the list of recorded piano music...
Pastel Blue (John Kirby; Decca). Manhattan's famed Onyx Club's little band plays homemade low-down music; blues-of-the-month...
...living in a two-room apartment on tree-shaded America Avenue in Baton Rouge. Charming, quiet, well-liked, she cooks, sews, collects old records and music, reads medieval documents, and modern poetry. Her slow writing bothers her not at all: "There are too many bad books without me trying to turn out two a year." But she is working on a novel, Promised Lands, wants to write four books, one for each section of the U. S. If they live up to Pale Horse, Pale Rider, the literary colony of Baton Rouge may turn out to be far more durable...
Seventy jazz records and two record albums, personal gifts from Benny Goodman, "King of Swing", to the University to encourage the study of swing and other types of American music, were received Saturday by Mrs. Lillian Hall, custodian of the Theatre Collection in Widener Library...