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...course, possible that Beethoven intended this as a display of technique, a pianist's tour de force, but in Miss Menuhin's wanderings, the force got lost in the tour. The melody, what there was of it, never managed to crawl out of the piano, since the pedal had a strangle hold on it for the whole-piece. The passage clearly intended to display technique came off as desultory peregrinations, and having the top of the piano down muted what little attempt there was at dynamic variety. Miss Menuhin couldn't play loudly enough. Beethoven concocted this mess of variations...
...speeders. Fastest of all were the Class AA dragsters, driven by such seasoned campaigners as 28-year-old Pete Robinson, an auto-parts manufacturer from Atlanta, who is the current U.S. champion. Stripped to the bare essentials-a naked steel frame, a bucket seat, racing tires, a "go pedal," and sometimes a drag parachute for braking-the "Double A-ers" are such specialized machines that they cannot even get started without a push...
...librettist, who has chosen to write in verse: "Even though Tom may be gone His memory I'll keep; I'm sure that we can carry on With income from our sheep." So does Director Jack (Lucky Me) Donohue, who can't even extort amusing pedal persiflage from Actor Bolger, one of the cleverest comic dancers of the age. And so do Lyricist Mel Leven and Songwriter George Bruns, who might profitably have excised Glenn MacDonough's words ("Toyland! Toyland! Little girl and boyland!") but should have restricted the impulse to "modernize" Victor Herbert...
...demonstrated her technical ability, and some musicianship, however, in her solo, Brahms' "Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann, Op. 9." She brought out the melody from a complex texture, occasionally blurring it with too much pedal...
...pencil-thin Negro poises disjointedly, like a puppet whose strings are loose. Then he prances forward, flapping his skinny arms and kicking his knees almost to his chest. Suddenly, his left foot slams savagely into the take-off board. His eyes bug, his face contorts, and his legs pedal furiously as he springs into trajectory. His left hand claws upward through the air as though searching for something...