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Debussy: Le Martyre de St.-Sébastién (Frances Yeend, soprano; Miriam Stewart, soprano; Anna Kaskas, contralto; Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra and Chorale, Victor Alessandro conducting; Allegro, 2 sides LP). Composed to a "mystery" of D'Annunzio for Dancer Ida Rubinstein, Le Martyre (1911) was itself martyred in an unsuccessful play, is rarely performed. It contains many a strange and beautiful bar, stands pretty well on its own in this first recording. Performance and recording: good...
Moreover, he seemed to suffer from chronic bad luck. As a young man (a conservatory classmate of Sergei Prokofiev) he won the Rubinstein Prize, but his career was thrown off pace by World War I and the Bolshevik revolution. His first tour of England fell apart before it got started when his English manager dropped dead. Once, while his piano was taken off to Rio de Janeiro, he was left standing on the dock for lack of a visa. Two years after his sensational U.S. debut, a New Yorker critic wrote: "It wouldn't be hard to make...
...Where's Stravinsky? Critic Thomson's biggest quarrel was over programs. Artists "at the level of fame" of Flagstad, Heifetz, Horowitz and Rubinstein could "do as they please." But, he charged, the programs of artists at a lower level are "censored in a most arbitrary fashion" by the New York concert services (who promptly denied it). "With concert business bigger than ever (by volume)," wrote Thomson, "the concert repertory gets smaller year by year. There are only five piano sonatas by Beethoven that the central offices will accept without a row. No long work by Schumann is considered...
...most fearless and most feared music critic of his day (1825-1904), and one of the most justly renowned of all time. Writing for the last 30 years of his career in Die Neue Freie Presse, he had contemporary subjects worthy of his talents: Franz Liszt, Clara Schumann, Anton Rubinstein, Joseph Joachim, Richard Wagner, Johannes Brahms and Giuseppe Verdi. A trained musician and respectable pianist himself, Critic Hanslick was sometimes caustic, but he was always careful. His claim was that "I never criticized a composition that I had not read or played through, both before and after the performance...
...Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Irving H. Saypol, recently concluded successful prosecution of two accused Communist agents. In 1945 he conducted investigations of black market practices in the textile industry, and in 1947 he secured a verdict of guilty in the prosecution of Serge Rubinstein for Selective Service fraud...