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...Minneapolis audience welcomed the piece wholeheartedly, from the poignantly elegiac first movement to the brilliant and stirring folk dance at the end. Wrote Tribune Critic Norman Houk: "The Bartok concerto was a major success ... It was given an alert, keyed-up performance by a soloist, orchestra and conductor who had been working on the complex score for a strenuous week . . . A permanent and important addition to the viola repertory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dead Man's Diamond | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Standards. Toledo-born Art Tatum played his first professional engagement at 16 as a dance-band pianist. Two years later he left the band to go on his own as a soloist. "The other boys used to razz me," he says. "They said I had no left hand, so I made up my mind to show 'em." Tatum is still sensitive about criticism of his bass, but can claim, with the enthusiastic approval of his fans, that he does more with his left hand than most pianists do with both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Solo Man | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Condon's has a low enough cover and a good enough six-piece band to make a visit desirable anyway. The addition of this soloist who looks like a junior executive makes such a pilgrimage almost compulsory. He treats a concert grand like an upright with newspaper behind the strings a la Chicago. That's no mean treatment, either...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: JAZZ | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Soloist: Pianist Jacques Abram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Carnegie Hall (Tues. 8 p.m., ABC). Soloist: Baritone Leonard Warren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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