Word: rachmilovich
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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Khachaturian: Violin Concerto (Louis Kaufman, violinist, with the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra, Jacques Rachmilovich conducting; Concert Hall Society, 8 sides). This concerto, a favorite in Soviet Russia, won its composer his first Stalin Prize (1940). It is full of furious fiddling, signifying nothing. Performance: good...
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Shura Cherkassy, with the Santa Monica Civic Symphony, Jacques Rachmilovich conducting; Concert Hall Society, 8 sides). In its search for the unplayed and unrecorded, Concert Hall has exhumed an inferior, uninteresting piece of Tchaikovsky. Performance: fair...
...radio is like driving in traffic; everything depends on the red & green lights of the script. Four years ago, tired of stop-&-start performances, a group of Hollywood's best studio musicians organized their own symphony orchestra. Last week, their Santa Monica Civic Symphony Orchestra, with Jacques Rachmilovich conducting, made its recording debut with Aram Khachaturian's Masquerade Suite (Asch, 5 sides). Although it has little of the pounding, rhythmic vigor of the Soviet composer's later Gayne Ballet Suite (TIME, March 24), this graceful reflection of a glittering Imperial Russian ballroom makes smooth and pleasant listening...