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...Cambridge this season by the Boston symphony orchestra. Described by its perpetrator as "having certain earmarks of the sonata form without being written in that form at all," his Concerto for violin and orchestra was a meaningless mass of dissonances which effectively disguised the technical ability of the soloist, Miss Ruth Posselt. The allegro molto seemed to lack any structural form and wandered aimlessly through a series of cacophonous variations on the first subject. The second movement, valse, combined an absurdly technical display by the soloist with a weak background on the strings. Several abrupt pauses in the final movement...
...good will was born, 42 years ago, in Barcelona, Spain, where he started as a conventional, long-haired concert violinist. After fiddling for five years as a concert side show to the late, great Enrico Caruso, Cugat settled in Los Angeles, where he made a high-toned debut as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. When the critics failed to rave, Cugat gave up the violin in disgust, took a job as a cartoonist on the Los Angeles Times...
...London Olda was a sensation. Sir Henry Wood made her his orchestra's soloist for the Albert Hall season in early 1939. Olda's parents went to London and rewarded her with a Continental holiday. In Poland they were trapped by the war and the Nazis. The Gestapo took Father Mehr to one concentration camp, mother and daughter to another...
Chief item on the menu is Mozart's wonderful D minor concerto for piano. Noel Lee '46 is the soloist and, for one of his age, plays with astonishing force and clarity. Last night's rehearsal showed that both he and the orchestra had worked hard to get a unified performance, and the result, at least, in the piano part, is up to professional standards. The fact that Lee is here at Harvard and not in a conservatory or on the concert stage, is our good luck. If that sounds like exaggeration, go to the concert tonight...
...previous recording by Cortot, Thibaud and Casals, was once a sensational bestseller, today is out of print. Victor's new version, with the latest, most scrupulous sound engineering, is one of the finest chamber-music recordings ever made. Rubinstein, Heifetz and Feuermann (each a famed concert soloist) play its lilting melodies with virtuoso finish and a subtle teamwork seldom heard when prima donnas of this caliber get together...