Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schumann: Quintet in E Flat (Rudolf Serkin, pianist, with the Busch String Quartet; Columbia, 2 sides, LP). Quieter, more flowing music than the Fantasia. In this performance the first movement has some of the innocuous quality of Muzak, but it finishes strongly. Recording: good...
...Centers throughout Germany and Austria, most of which have large libraries of books on American subjects. Periodically they send out truck loads of American books for distribution to smaller towns. Picture displays on the U.S., American teachers, artists, musicians, and lecturers tour the Centers. Last summer the Walden String Quartet, the Yale Glee Club, and Town Meeting of the Air were some of the performers...
...land of CARE packages and material aid, efficiency, unlimited wealth, and may I add, irrepressible and unhibited tourists. I hope to see the day when we shall send to Europe our finest artists, scholars, symphony orchestras, university shows, choirs, etc. The Yale Glee Club and the Walden String Quartet were worth a hundred public discussions on the democratic ideal and culture...
...mile event, the Bruin team of Les Midgley, Joe Toby, John Toby, and Josh Toby outran the Crimson mile-relay quartet of Ed Grutzner, Harvey Thayer, Ron Berman, and Tom McGrath. The home side's two-mile team came in third, and the Brown freshmen, who were lapped, trailed the field...
Bartok: Concerto No. 2 (Andor Foldes, pianist, with the Lamoureux Orchestra, Eugene Bigot conducting; Vox-Polydor, 2 sides, LP). First recording of this great work, which the late Bela Bartok composed in the same period as the brilliant and bold Quartet No. 4. Stubbornly unrelenting in its harmonies and fierce rhythms, it is sterner stuff than the later Concerto No. 3. Hungarian-American Pianist Foldes gives it a powerful performance. Recording: excellent...