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...does, Newk has no worry. His batting eye is so sharp that he could be taught to shag flies and turned into a good outfielder. (Impressed by the same kind of hitting. Boston Red Sox Manager Ed Barrow turned a good pitcher named George Herman Ruth into an outfielder in 1918.) So far this season, Newk boasts a .406 batting average and a slugging percentage (calculated by dividing total times at bat into total bases reached on hits) of .797. With six home runs he has already tied the National League record for four-baggers hit by a pitcher...
Dallapiccola: Tartiniana (Ruth Posselt, violin; Columbia Symphony conducted by Leonard Bernstein; Columbia). Italy's most famed modernist in a mellow mood. Two of the four movements start with themes by 18th century Violinist-Composer Tartini, then gradually, smoothly warm up to entrancing modernity. All of the movements seem to weave Tartini's melodies serenely for a while, then get involved in the implications of their own patterns; at other times the old tunes appear in a kind of bas-relief against a background of alien dissonance. A fascinating composition...
...outside. Otherwise, the twelve were encouraged to devise their own programs. They studied in the institute's well-stocked library, worked in its shops and greenhouse, tramped through its acres of woods, set up a whole series of heated round-table discussions. Under the deft guidance of Psychologist Ruth Andrus, they not only rediscovered the art of conversation, they also found a host of talents they had never suspected before...
...Albuquerque wound up its 14th annual chamber-music festival last week in the 500-seat Little Theater. The concerts are donated by Banker-Rancher Albert Gallatin Simms, onetime Congressman, in memory of his wife, onetime Congresswoman Ruth Hanna McCormick. Each performance ends with Schumann's Piano Quintet, Op. 44 (it is Sponsor Simms's favorite). This year's guest star: top Violist William Primrose...
...Ruth Etting (Columbia LP). One of the alltime torch-singing queens in reissues inspired by the current film about her life, Love Me or Leave Me (TIME, June 6). Ruth Etting is past mistress of the musical affectations of the jazz age-the faint hiccup, the tear in the larynx, the lilting dash into a phrase and the heartbroken sigh as it ends. Today, some of it sounds laughable, but Songstress Etting's languorous sweetness and warmth make most of it sound just fine. Songs range from the razzmatazz rhythms of Shaking the Blues Away and At Sundown...