Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Album of Early Choral Music (Trapp Family Choir; Victor: 10 sides). Salzburg's singing family (TIME, Dec. 19) warbles a program of quaint archaic vocal chamber music...
Last Monday Critic Lawrence Oilman had the sniffles. Reading Donald Tovey's recondite Essays in Musical Analysis, he came across a sentence which made him hop out of bed and call up NBC's Musical Commentator Samuel Chotzinoff. Did Mr. Toscanini know that Wagner's original prelude to the third act of Tannhauser, which got only one performance (at the opera's world premiere, 1845), was much longer than the one usually played? Arturo Toscanini, who has a memory like a telephoto camera, could remember having seen some such score. On Tuesday a phone call...
...greatest concert singers of this generation is Marian Anderson, Philadelphia-born Negro contralto. Since she skyrocketed to fame in Salzburg four years ago, the music-lovers and critics of the world's musical capitals have counted it a privilege to hear her sing. Last week it looked as though music-lovers in provincial Washington, D.C. might be denied this privilege. Reason: Washington's only large concert auditorium, Constitution Hall, is owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution, who are so proud they won't eat mush-much less let a Negro sing from their stage...
...Thomas Beecham conducting, with Tiana Lemnitz. Erna Berger, Helge Roswaenge, Gerhard Hüsch and other artists; Victor: 2 volumes, 3-7 sides). The 18th-Century Masonic symbolism ol Mozart's great, quaint, rollicking fantasy-opera The Magic Flute is pretty vague to present-day audiences. But the music is some of the most beautiful Mozart wrote. Its first complete recording, less perfectly tooled but more spectacular than the Glyndebourne Don Giovanni (TIME, Oct. 3), is the record of the month...
Purcell-Barbirolli: Suite for Strings, Horns, Flutes & English Horn (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting: Victor: 4 sides). Anthology in modern orchestral dress of music by England's great 17th-Century master. Brilliantly played and recorded...