Word: musicically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16 (the Paganini Quartet; Victor, 6 sides). Here, in Beethoven's last great quartet, is the kind of music that Pianist Artur Schnabel describes as "better than it can be played." The Paganini Quartet version is almost the equal of the old Budapest String Quartet performance; the recording is much better...
Chopin: Preludes (Artur Rubinstein, pianist; Victor, 8 sides). This one deserves to join the great company of Rubinstein's Mazurka and Nocturne albums. Some of Chopin's best music, and some of Pianist Rubinstein's finest playing. Recording: excellent...
...desires and hopes and ideas of a race with vivid feelings and deep emotional reactions are forced in upon themselves, bound inward by an iron ring of frustration: the prejudice that hems them in with its four insurmountable walls. In this huge cauldron, inestimable natural gifts, wisdom, love, music, science, poetry are stamped down and left to boil with the dregs of an elementally corrupted nature, and thousands upon thousands of souls are destroyed by vice and misery and degradation, obliterated, wiped out, washed from the register of the living, dehumanized...
...Harvard and Radcliffe Music Clubs will present a concert of contemporary chamber music in Paine Hall tonight at 8:30 p.m. at their first open meeting of the year. The program, containing pieces by Ravel, Kohn, Milhaud, and Hindemith, will feature Phyllis Curtin, mezzo-soprano, as guest artist...
Goldovsky has completely reworked the plot, made a minor character into the operetta's protagonist, and used production devices more familiar in Hollywood than on an opera stage. The music has been orchestrated, but other than that left pretty much alone. The result of these manipulations is an operetta not only delightful to hear, but excellent theater as well...