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Last week's program started off with Trio for flute, viola and cello by 20th Century French Composer Albert Roussel, continued with a Bach sonata for the solo flute, and finished with English Composer William Walton's Facade, scored for seven instruments and a poetry reciter (Actress Jane Wyatt reading Edith Sitwell). The program noted with pride that Facade (composed in 1922) was getting its Los Angeles premiere...
When he is not touring, Szigeti lives quietly with his wife Wanda in Palos Verdes, Calif. He is just as eager to discover new music as he was in the '20s, when he introduced such works as Prokofiev's Concerto No. 1 and Roussel's Second Sonata and was soundly rebuked by many critics at the time. He is just as eager to discover new old music, for that matter. "Nothing would please me more than to find a lost Mendelssohn sonata," says Violinist Szigeti. "Digging into the remote corners of music keeps one bright and shiny...
Included in the program are Handel's suite from the music for the Royal Fireworks; Prelude, Fugue and Postlude, by Honegger; Bacchus at Ariane, from Roussel's Ballot Second Suite, Opus 43; and Beethoven's Symphony Number Three in E-flat major, the Eroica, Opus Number Five...
...have a talk with his doctor. Society reporters knew him as the Hon. Peter Beatty, one of Britain's "most eligible bachelors." Sportwriters had called him "Lucky" Beatty ever since 1938 when he became the youngest (28) owner ever to win the Derby at Epsom Downs (with Bois Roussel). In that same year Peter's Foxglove II (purchased the night before the race from his good friend Prince Aly Khan) took the Gold Cup at Ascot. On that occasion, Peter invited 500 guests, including the Duke of Kent, to celebrate at a glittering ball in a specially built...
Divorced. By Michele Morgan (real name: Simone Roussel), 29, green-eyed French cinemactress (Port of Shadows, Symphonic Pastorale): William Marshall, 31, cinema director, after six years of marriage, one child; in Paris...