Word: schumann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Churchill spoke up again for four-power talks to negotiate Locarno-type assurances between Russia and the West. At the U.N., where U.S. Secretary of State Dulles had set the tone by recognizing Russia's right to assurances against hostile encirclement (TIME, Sept. 28), France's Maurice Schumann carried the matter further. "No nation understands better than France what the haunting fear of invasion and the obsessive longing for security can mean," said he. He turned pointedly to Russia's Andrei Vishinsky. "I assure you, you will find us ready to seek with you ... a guarantee against...
Serenade (Voices of Walter Schumann; Capitol, 2 EPs). Where a good many popular records have a chorus floating around in the background behind a band, this one pulls a switch, uses instruments only to dress up the vocal sound. The singing is smooth, the arrangements (of Paradise and seven other oldies) pleasantly different...
Much of the music was standard festival fare-Brahms, Beethoven and Schumann -and there was only one complete evening of Spanish music, appropriately devoted to Granada's adopted composer, Manuel de Falla, and one of Spanish dance. But for visitors from other lands the festival had a real surprise: the performance of Madrid's 13-year-old National Orchestra and its conductor, Ataulfo Argenta. The son of a Santander stationmaster, Argenta, 39, made a living as a coffeehouse pianist for a while, then studied in Germany before taking over the Madrid radio orchestra in 1946. There...
...Piano from Mozart to Bartok (Beveridge Webster; Perspective). The house of Steinway's 100th anniversary this year gives a chance to lump a music-hall variety program (Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Weber, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Debussy, Bartok) on one disk. Versatile Pianist Webster runs the gamut without stumbling and with considerable brilliance...
Other notable new recordings: all of Bach's English Suites played by Fernando Valenti (Westminster, 3 LPs); Kodály's Seven Piano Pieces, Op. 11, played by Ilona Kabos (Bartok Records); selections from Schumann's Piano Music, played by Andor Foldes (Mercury...