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...Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult. Columbia packaged most of the Orchestral Music of Brahms (four records), lovingly played by the Philharmonic-Symphony under Bruno Walter, and all the Beethoven Cello Sonatas (three records), masterfully played by Pablo Casals and Pianist Rudolf Serkin...
...production genius, said: "If we didn't have Von Neurath, we would all go crazy." They were an ill-assorted lot: fat, bald, obscene Walter Funk (No. 6); rich, young, suicidal Baldur von Schirach (No. 1); dangerous, unrepentant ex-Admiral Karl Doenitz (No. 2); weird, half-sane Rudolf Hess (No. 7): arthritic, pious ex-Admiral Erich Raeder (No. 4). Von Neurath would recall for them the glittering days when he was his country's envoy to the Kings of Italy and Great Britain. He had been a childhood friend of Britain's Queen Mary, who called...
...Metropolitan Opera. In those days, hiring a Negro artist was unthinkable at the Met. She went on the concert stage instead, and became one of the great recitalists of all time. But last week, fiftyish and famous as ever,* she sat down with the Met's General Manager Rudolf Bing and signed up for a starring role this winter...
...Columbia released such radical items as Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Bartok's Contrasts, and continued to rack up first recordings of modern masterpieces, e.g., Berg's Violin Concerto, Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky cantata. Gradually, Columbia built a stable of its own name artists (Pianist Rudolf Serkin, Violinist Joseph Szigeti), and created a new source of fine music as a major underwriter of the first Casals Festival. By the time Columbia introduced LP (1948), most of its classical catalogue was Lieberson-produced...
...RUDOLF A. STEINDLER Hackensack...