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Sometimes Amiable. O'Connell has his favorites and devotes most of his book to them: Rachmaninoff, Traubel, Monteux, Rubinstein, Stokowski, Koussevitzky. Of these for the most part he writes amiably, if not profoundly. He recalls the way Conductor Pierre Monteux won over the Philadelphia Orchestra at a rehearsal: "Gentlemen, I know that you know this piece backwards, but please do not let us play it that...
...Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m. NBC). Chopin's Polonaise in A-Flat Major, Debussy's Clair de Lune, Grieg's Erotik and Concerto in A Minor (last movement). Guest: Pianist Artur Rubinstein...
...crust), who disliked his serious works ("He paints big feet, he paints Negroes, he imitates Diego Rivera"), were commissioning him to paint their portraits, and Portinari obligingly turned out slick & sound conventional likenesses in the best School of Fine Arts manner. He made good money painting portraits of Helena Rubinstein, Yehudi Menuhin, Artur Rubinstein...
...Metropolitan's Richard Bonelli (voice), England's Griller Quartet (chamber music) and Composer Ernest Bloch (music craftsmanship) are on the faculty. Sponsors include Pierre Monteux, Artur Rodzinski, Bruno Walter, Yehudi Menuhin, Artur Rubinstein, Laurence Tibbett, Helen Traubel, Lotte Lehmann and Joseph Szigeti. Hollywooders Darryl Zanuck, Ronald Colman, Alec Templeton and Jeanette MacDonald chipped in scholarships...
...composers spared Mossman's working-over were Bach, Beethoven and Schumann. Last week Schumann took the count. Mossman published three Tin Pan Alley adaptations of Schumann, timed to soften up the U.S. for a movie on Schumann's life, Song of Love, in which Pianist Artur Rubinstein plays Schumann's music straight (TIME, May 26). Schumann's Träumerei will be crooned and swung as Fantasy; the song Widinung will be known as Dedication. From the great A Minor Piano Concerto, Mossman has wrung a vapid tune called A Love Story...