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Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1, ChÔros No. 4 & No. 7 (chambergroups, Werner Janssen conducting; Capitol, 2 sides LP). South America's No. 1 composer writes here for such combinations as eight cellos, three horns and a trombone, five woodwinds and two strings and gong. Typical Villa-Lobos: brilliant color and exotic rhythms. Performance and recording: good...
Manila's waterfront used to be run by a combination of the tough Union de Obre-ros Estivadores de Filipinas (U.O.E.F.) and certain employers and politicians who played ball with U.O.E.F. The union capataces (work-gang leaders) collected money from the shippers, paid off the workers themselves. In the days when there were as many as 25 ships in the harbor, the capataces' rake-off amounted to $25,000 a week...
Producer-Scripter-Director Robert Ros-sen's All the King's Men won the New York critics' award as 1949's best English-language picture, but failed to appear on the National Board's ten-best list. Except for The Bicycle Thief, only four films won recognition from both groups: Britain's The Fallen Idol and Quartet, MGM's Intruder in the Dust, and France's Devil in the Flesh...
Brahms: Sonata No. 3 in D Minor (Mischa Elman, violinist, Wolfgang Rosé, pianist; Victor, 6 sides). Both Menuhin and Szigeti have performed this more brilliantly. Recording: fair...
...Rome, looked at the statues and pictures, and came back a fighting antiquary. Brutus and the Horatii were his idols; he painted them to resemble the antique sculpture he admired, posturing naked and grand in a cool world. To complaints about la nudité de mes héros, David replied simply and smugly that they had always been represented that way in the Golden...