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Stravinsky reduced Firebird's rondo to a simple foxtrot, and brought it back. Levy had his boys write 35 versions of the lyrics before he finally settled on one written by John (Heartaches') Klenner. He named it Summer Moon. Stravinsky changed only one word. Copies went out to what Levy calls "the guys with the big pipes"-Melchior, Nelson Eddy. Said Levy: "When guys like Sinatra and Crosby hear them singing it, they'll want to do it quick. Create a demand, that's what you do. But control the demand too. You gotta...
Britten: Introduction & Rondo alla Burlesca and Mazurka Elegiaca (Clifford Curzon and Benjamin Britten, pianists; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 4 sides); Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings (Boyd Neel String Orchestra, Benjamin Britten conducting; 6 sides). The first recordings of Britain's wonder-boy composer to reach the U.S. His two-piano music is written in a pure, archaic style reminiscent of Britain's 17th Century great, Henry Purcell, though Britten adds harmonic twists of his own. The Serenade, done in a more contemporary vein, consists of poems by Blake, Keats, Tennyson and others, set to music that is artful...
That Mr. Simonds not only is a remarkably able pianist but also possesses a thorough knowledge of Beethoven's Concerto was evidenced by the facility and technique of his performance. His cadenza in the First Movement presented the theme powerfully, yet simply, and throughout the second (Largo) and third (Rondo Allegro) movements his interpretation continued to be spirited and full. It was regrettable that the attack of the orchestra seemed slightly rusty in the first movement, but this fault decreased as the work progressed...
...pipings of a demagogue. Naziism was in tune with Deutschland Über Alles-with the German superrace strains of Hegel, Nietzsche and Fichte; with the thunder of Wagner; with the rhythmic plans of the German General Staff first to dominate Europe and then the world; with the rondo movement of German Junkers and industrialists to seize world markets. Naziism was nourished and adopted by Army men like embittered, ever-dreaming General Erich Ludendorff, industrialists like Fritz Thyssen and Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, businessmen like Helmuth Wohlthat, Junkers like Franz von Papen...
...Walter Damrosch. None ever caught on. And last week Cincinnati critics had their doubts after listening to Weinberger's symphony, given by Eugene Goossens and the Cincinnati Symphony. Weinberger plunged heavily into Deep River, splashing the spiritual not only in his "heroic scherzo" but also in a final rondo. The other movements were subtitled "6 Captain! My Captain!" and "The Hand on the Plough." Innocently Czech Weinberger worked in his King Charles's head-a fugue. But no polka...