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Another Russian had the best-selling single classical album. Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 sold well in two versions: one recorded by Rachmaninoff himself 15 years before his death, and one by Artur Rubinstein. All year long, Rachmaninoff's 47-year-old piece had seesawed for first place with Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, and finally...
...answers to these questions are: 1) Sibelius, 2) Gershwin, 3) Shostakovich, 4) Schumann, 5) Rachmaninoff and, for the cut, Chopin. The answer to our offering of TIME for Music is that department stores in all 31 cities have accepted it and are displaying, or planning to display, it to coincide with the opening of their local symphony orchestra's season...
Sometimes Amiable. O'Connell has his favorites and devotes most of his book to them: Rachmaninoff, Traubel, Monteux, Rubinstein, Stokowski, Koussevitzky. Of these for the most part he writes amiably, if not profoundly. He recalls the way Conductor Pierre Monteux won over the Philadelphia Orchestra at a rehearsal: "Gentlemen, I know that you know this piece backwards, but please do not let us play it that...
...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, Strauss's love scene from Feuers-not, Handel-Elgar's Overture in D Minor, the Andante Cantabile from Tchaikovsky's String Quartet in D Major. Conductor: Frank Black...
...Rachmaninoff: The Bells (Hollywood First Methodist Choir, Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra, Jacques Rachmilovitch conducting; Disc, 8 sides). A somewhat murky musical adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe. Performance: fair...