Word: rachmaninoffs
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Itch is beautifully mounted in De Luxe-color CinemaScope, and Marilyn Monroe's eye-catching gait is more tortile and wambling than ever. She also displays a nice comedy touch, reminiscent of a baby-talk Judy Holliday. After listening to a Rachmaninoff concerto, Marilyn gets real comic conviction into her voice when she decides it must be classical music "because there's no vocal." Tom Ewell brings the expertise of long familiarity to his part of the agonized husband, but Director Wilder has let several of Ewell's monologues go on a shade too long. In minor...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 4, with Soloist Leonid Hambro...
Rhapsody (M-G-M). Americans have nobler characters than Europeans. All great music was written by either Tchaikovsky or Rachmaninoff. Artists are the hottest lovers. Good musicians have long hair. All rich people are neurotic. Rhapsody is a relatively harmless tissue of such debatable propositions...
...support him, but has to pay her so much attention in return that he is driven from keyboard to bar. In the end, of course. Actress Taylor sees the error of her ways and builds up the husband she has torn down, just in time for a gigantic Rachmaninoff rag at the finale...
...Well-tempered Clavier but was Liszt's arrangement of an organ work. The indicating this gave of Mr. Berman's inclinations in musical literature was accurate; Liszt figured in the first work of the program, Chopin composed the last and in between came Schumann, more Chopin, Debussy, and Rachmaninoff. From the Classical period there was only Mozart's Presto from the A-minor Sonata (K, 310). It is the climax of one of Mozart's most poignant works, but its position as an isolated movement beside the intermezzi and preludes with which the program abounded hardly does it justice...