Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd, predominantly young with a sprinkling of greyheads, rose to its feet, cheering wildly. It clapped to hot music and spirituals sung by a Negro quartet. It listened, hushed, as Paul Robeson sang Ol' Man River, and applauded the Negro baritone when he declared: "I want to share with you the spirit of triumph I feel in the strength of Henry Wallace. He has marched into the Southland and given hope to Negroes all over the land...
Berg: Lyric Suite (Galimir String Quartet; Vox-Polydor, 8 sides). In this suite, one of his last works, the late Alban Berg (TIME, May 31) put his teacher Arnold Schonberg's theories to test, came up with perhaps the best work yet composed in twelve-tone technique. That still doesn't make it very listenable to ordinary unpracticedears. Performance: excellent. Recording : excellent...
That was the story the arresting officers told popeyed reporters when they hauled the quartet to the Los Angeles county jail. A star of the first magnitude and an idol of organized bobby-soxers who call themselves the "Bob Mitchum Droolettes," the 31-year-old actor talked his head off in a mixture of remorse and forced humor...
...plot activity centers around a refrigerator, a range and a home freezer (all Kelvinators), it amounts to a straight 15-minute plug. The barker in Texaco Star Theater continually fondles Texaco products, performs before a curtain picturing a Texaco gas station, and is supported by a close-harmony quartet wearing Texaco uniforms...
...Mozart: Quartet in 6 Major, K.387 (Griller String Quartet, English Decca, 8 sides). One of Mozart's greatest; the performance lacks the fire to make it great. Recording: good. Concerto in A Major, K.488 (Clifford Curzon, pianist, with the National Symphony Orchestra, Boyd Neel conducting; English Decca, 6 sides). Another great work, played by one of Britain's best pianists. In this dull, muffled recording, however, it sounds as if his piano were out in the wings...