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Last week, two nights after the cantata broadcast, Pianist Vivian Rivkin premiered Arnell's Twenty-two Variations on an Original Theme in Carnegie Hall. Composer Arnell admitted that it had been a successful week: "CBS paid for copying the cantata scores. I spent only $10 for postage and a recording of the cantata performance-and I got two seats to Carnegie Hall...
Victor has just released Stokowski's excellent recording of Szostakowicz's sixth symphony, and Columbia has recorded his quintet for piano and strings with the Stuyvesant Quartet and a Miss Vivian Rivkin. I haven't been able to hear the quintet, but I was very much impressed by the sixth. I don't think it will rank as high as the fifth in the long run, but there is a lot of good stuff in it, especially the sombre and leisurely first movement which is the kind of drawn-out thematic development which he does to perfection in the first...
...First Symphony spoke up brightly with gusty tunes and youthful zest. This month, phonograph record shops all over the U.S. put on display two outstanding albums of the premier Russian musician: his Symphony No. 6 (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski; Victor; 9 sides); his Piano Quintet (Vivian Rivkin and Stuyvesant String Quartet; Columbia; 8 sides...
...picture (from a story by Paul Gallico) is a credit to all concerned- especially to Director Thorpe and Producer Jack Chertok, Scenarist Allen Rivkin, pretty Mother Hunt, and Mechanic Young, who plays his Ail-American role with likable, natural, easygoing familiarity. Not a high-powered movie, it is a first-rate die for the new propaganda models which Hollywood is readying for mass production...
...above), the National Youth Administration radio orchestra, and an amateur symphony of his own in Harlem. At a Town Hall recital, Conductor Dixon made more news. He directed a 38-piece white outfit which he had founded-the New York Chamber Orchestra-in concertos with a debutante pianist, Vivian Rivkin...