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News of the recordings of other pianists--all recent and all recommended--must be telescoped into the following list: Van Cliburn, Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto--exciting only in the final moment (RCA Victor LM/LSC 2562); Robert Casadesus, Schumann's Papillons, Waldscenen and Symphonic Etudes--a delightful record (Columbia ML5642/MS6242); Mr. Casadesus and his wife Gaby, Mozart's Concerto for two Pianos, K. 365--an incomparable performance (Columbia ML 5674/MS 6274); and Alexander Brailowsky, Chopin's 14 Waltzes--a workmanlike but rather bored interpretation (Columbia ML 5628/MS...
...demonstrated her technical ability, and some musicianship, however, in her solo, Brahms' "Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann, Op. 9." She brought out the melody from a complex texture, occasionally blurring it with too much pedal...
Also on the All-Ivy first team: Barry Schumann, Princeton end; Bob Asack, Columbia tackle; Matt Black, Yale center; Tony Day, Columbia guard; Gary Wood, Cornell quarterback; Greg Riley, Princeton halfback; Tom Haggerty, Columbia halfback; and Tom O'Connor, Columbia fullback...
After the guests had taken their chairs, Casals bent over his 250-year-old Goffriller violoncello and, with a characteristic grimace, began to draw out the golden notes of Mendelssohn's Trio in D Minor. Then there were Schumann's fluid Adagio and Allegro and five Concert Pieces by Couperin. As an encore, Casals played his own arrangement-virtually his theme song-of the Catalan melody, Chant of the Birds...
...Cantate Doming to Black-eyed Susie. Their bass section was so weak as to be superfluous, and even the "Hey" in one of their football songs was fairly pallid. The first half of their selections slogged along rather dully during a medley of Three German Romantic Choruses by Schubert, Schumann, and Weber, respectively. The horn accompaniment, though an improvement over many a brass ensemble, still cast a submarine gloom over three already drab and awkward numbers...