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FAIR LADIES-Slatkin, 115 East 92nd. A dazzling display of the female form: standing, seated or reclining, in the nude or decorously draped, the ladies serve as a universal standard of beauty. Over 65 drawings, paintings and sculptures by Rodin, Degas, Maillol, Matisse, Picasso and others. Through July...
...this heritage worked out is something art lovers all over the U.S. are now seeing for themselves. A small retrospective opened at Manhattan's Slatkin Galleries last November, after a month in Ottawa. It went on to Toledo, last week opened with 89 items at the St. Louis City Art Museum, and will go later to Santa Barbara, San Diego, San Francisco and Cincinnati...
Fantastic Percussion (Felix Slatkin conducting; Liberty). Classical Conductor Slatkin enlists in the stereo wars, blending 35 kinds of percussion instruments from all over the world to lend new, cool and yet exotic color to standard tunes like Blues in the Night. One of the more civilized and sophisticated stereo demonstrations, with feathery Balinese bells leaping from speaker to speaker and mingling in midair...
Shostakovich: Concerto in C Minor (Victor Aller, piano; Mannie Klein, trumpet; Concert Arts String Orchestra conducted by Felix Slatkin; Capitol). A barrel of fun, vintage 1933. It turns pretentious phrases into taradiddles, uncovers one ear-tickling twist after another, and includes a slow movement that is unfailingly melodious. Standout performance...
Music of Frederick Delius (Concert Arts Orchestra conducted by Felix Slatkin; Capitol). The famous On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring and four other pieces in a style whose closest artistic relatives are the misty pastorals of Painters Turner and Corot...