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...with the yeas. between two excellent performances of the superb Sonata No. 1, Alexander Schneider's (Mercury, 1 side LP) is for those who prefer a hardness of tone and a rather blunt forthrightness; Tossy Spivakovsky (Columbia, 1 side LP) plays with more beauty of tone and slightly softer phrasing. Violinist Joseph Szigeti (Columbia, 1 side LP) has no competition in his performance of Sonata No. 5 (or, on the other side, in the Concerto No. 1, with the New Friends of Music Orchestra, Fritz Stiedry conducting). Recordings: good...
...might have been the finish of a softer man. McCarthy was worried because the grounds around the mansion were still bare -he bought a nursery firm, used its stock to landscape his vast lawns, and sold the company at a $1,500 profit. Then he argued his creditors into letting him go on drilling. After that he really got rich with a string of successful explorations at Chocolate Bayou, Anchor, Bailey's Prairie, Coleto Creek, Angleton, Winnie-Stowell and Blue Lake...
Back to the Cafe. Karfiol's style has grown steadily softer and warmer, but it has not changed. Nowadays he paints in Manhattan, spends his weekends with his wife, son and two grandchildren in Irvington, N.Y., and his summers in Ogunquit, Maine. "I'm saving my pennies to go back to Paris again," he says. "I want to go back to the Cafe de Dome...
Chopin: Concerto No. 1 In E Minor (Alexander Brailowsky, piano, with the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Artur Rubinstein's magnificent performance (also for Victor) is a mark for most pianists to shoot at; Brailowsky's softer and sometimes soggy version just misses. Recording: excellent...
This week both sides danced nimbly and dizzily around, looking for parliamentary advantages. The main issue, however, was pretty clear. It was whether the U.S. was to have a tougher Wagner Act or simply a softer Taft-Hartley Act. The strategy of both sides was to find amendments to make their bills look more attractive to undecided voters. The fence-sitters, not the violent partisans, were the ones who would decide the outcome...