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Quartet recording in past years has often been a slip-shod business. Victor especially seems contented just to get the sound down on wax and let it go at that. Not so, however, with Columbia's Budapest Quartet series. Here are four players, each a first rate soloist in his own right, welded together into the kind of unit you find in a good crew or ball team. Other quartets have the same precision, and occasionally the same warmth of tone, but the Budapest people have that extra something that brings the music to life and gives it symphonic dimensions...
...democrats by refusing to let dusky Contralto Marian Anderson sing in their Constitution Hall, had a wartime change of heart last week. When her stubborn Manager Sol Hurok again asked for use of the Washington hall, the DARters went him one better, formally invited Miss Anderson to be soloist on one of their war-relief concerts this winter...
...program called it a concerto, but the soloist was a soprano. For 24 minutes, off & on, Margot Rebeil warbled wordlessly, while the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under plump Eugene Goossens wove strands of tone around her. Conductor Goossens was giving his audience not only a new work, but a new wrinkle in composition: a full-fledged concerto for voice and orchestra...
...symposium in Winthrop House Junior Common Room this evening, at which most of Harvard's active jazz players will congregate to display their talents. I don't know just what procedure will be followed, but probably there will be a small band or two formed, so that each soloist will have solid support during his innings. The entries are not closed yet, and even if you play only a slide whistle, remember that Louis Armstrong has brought a new lease of life even to that unimpressive instrument, so that if you can coax a jazz solo from...
...arrived in the U.S. last fall, he was just another paid hand in the crowded concert field. A brilliant Carnegie Hall recital last November turned the trick. He was snapped up for concert dates; nine-tenths of them were sellouts. He went to Boston in January to appear as soloist with Serge Koussevitzky's resplendent orchestra. The Bostonians liked him so well that he was called back for a return engagement the same month-a thing the Boston Symphony never does. Fortnight ago he likewise reappeared, for the second time this season, with Frederick Stock's Chicago Symphony...