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...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Mozart's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in E Flat Major; Griffes' The White Peacock; Siegmeister's Symphony. Guest: British Pianist Dame Myra Hess. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...
...Schumann situation is even worse. Kilenyi and Cortot slaughter the etudes symphoniques and Myra Hess distorts the Carnaval, while the toccata, Kreisleriana, and sonatas exist only in ancient and unavailable Victor sets. The other piano works are mostly unrecorded. Liszi and Franck are brutally manhandled by everyone but Petri and Horowitz. Here Louis Kentner typifies the wasted talent: known in America for a few excellent Mozart recordings, Kentner himself considers Liszi his piece do resistance...
Astute, bespectacled Jacob ("Jack") Kapp bought an armful of children's small-sized records at the dime store to try on one of the three phonographs in his house. His three-year-old daughter Myra didn't like them. So Kapp, who is president of Decca Records. Inc., recorded a group of Mother Goose stories just for Myra, on standard-size discs. Myra liked them so much that Kapp put the records on sale...
That was in 1935. In the years since, Myra has grown into a big girl, and the kind of children's recordings that Kapp started have grown into big business. There are now nearly twoscore companies making records for small fry. This year the industry may reach a gross of $20,000,000. Decca, with 100 albums now on the market, still leads the field...
...good a pianist or is Sir Thomas just that good a husband? At ten, Betty Humby was the youngest pupil ever to win a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. At 14 she had 30 pupils of her own and at 16 she was a piano professor under Myra Hess. As a concert soloist, however, critics rate her as competent, not great...