Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...1890s the Moulin Rouge was the gayest dance hall in Paris. It had little Tunisian donkeys which bore cancan girls on their backs, an immense papier-mâché elephant which hid a troupe of dancers and an entire orchestra in its belly. It also had rough & ready Louise Weber (known for her lusty appetites as La Goulue-the glutton), who nightly exposed her shapely limbs and 60 yards of lace lingerie in hectic kicks and splits. To publicize her, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec did his first poster...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 8 sides); (Paris Conservatory Orchestra, Carl Schuricht conducting; London FFRR, 2 sides, LP). Two great performances; if Schuricht's is more sure, Victor's 45-r.p.m. recording holds an edge over London's LP (33⅓-r.p.m.) in quality of sound...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Irma Gonzalez, soprano; Elena Nikolaidi, contralto; Raoul Jobin, tenor; Mack Harrell, baritone; Westminster Choir and New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia, 16 sides). The first three movements are performed with more passion than pace; both the singing and the recording in the choral movement come off with some screeching and muffled sounds...
Chopin: Concerto No. 1 In E Minor (Alexander Brailowsky, piano, with the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Artur Rubinstein's magnificent performance (also for Victor) is a mark for most pianists to shoot at; Brailowsky's softer and sometimes soggy version just misses. Recording: excellent...
Gilbert & Sullivan: Pirates of Penzance, Trial by Jury (D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, New Promenade Orchestra, Isadore Godfrey conducting; London FFRR, 4 sides and 2 sides respectively, LP). The first two in the Gilbert & Sullivan series which London Gramophone plans to bring out, performed by the past masters of the art. Performance and recording: excellent...