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...Ravel: Introduction and Allegro (Laura Newell, harpist, John Wummer, flautist, Ralph McLane, clarinetist, the Stuyvesant String Quartet; Columbia: three sides). Elegant French fancy work, in its best needling to date. The harp and strings have been working the other side of the street, as the New Friends of Rhythm...
Kostalonetz has always been one of my idols and I hoped that his first records in a long while (of "Selections from Porgy and Best," "Claire De Lune," and "Pavane" by Ravel) would he up to the standard he has set on his radio program. Kosty has always had the most brilliant of the big "symphonic" Jazz bands and usually makes Mr. Whiteman look sick...
...dotted a Europe that was emerging from its coldest winter in a hundred years. As Sumner Welles & party arrived in Rome, the almond trees were blossoming; people were singing a new song, Wind, wind, take me away with you; crowds were flocking to see Three Smart Girls, to hear Ravel's L'Heure Espagnole...
...already conducted more Wagnerian opera than many a veteran, had even been mentioned as a candidate for Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, where no U. S.-born maestro has ever held a job. Baltimore critics liked his version of Wagner, his lacy, intricate French scores by Ravel and Debussy, declared him the "most imagina tive" they had heard "in a long time," prophesied a brilliant future...
...advance ballyhoo, a slight, dark-eyed, French-Canadian nine-year-old named André Mathieu hurried onto the stage, bowed stiffly, and pounced upon the keyboard of a huge concert grand. The audience applauded with delight at his precociously efficient playing of piano pieces by Chopin, Debussy and Ravel, but what left them wide-eyed with wonder was his musicianly performance of 14 of his own complicated and expert compositions, some of them written when he was only four. None of them was childish. Some, with descriptive titles like Procession d'Eléphants, Les Abeilles Piquantes, Berceuse, showed...