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Jascha Heifetz: Violin Solos (Decca, 8 sides). The top classical artist to stray from Victor or Columbia, during the 14 months when Decca had made its peace with Petrillo and the big two had not. So far, Heifetz has played such banalities as White Christmas and Largo al Factotum for...
The movies' master pianist, Jose Iturbi, contributes several fine plane solos and some good comedy, while Kathryn Grayson proves an attractive heroine. When the music stops, the film is devoted to skillful comedy that is both waggish and whimsical. It's the type of comedy that even Fred Allen fans...
The postwar record world is coming in on the wings of an old-fashioned hymn sing. Leading the service is Movie Thrush Jeanette MacDonald with such standbys as Holy City and Nearer, My, God, to Thee (Religious Songs, Victor, 6 sides). Fred Waring's glee club & orchestra harmonizes ten...
But symphonic composers, from Handel to Richard Strauss, have rated the contrabassoon highly, using it to fill in the substructures of massive harmonies. In compositions like Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Paul Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice, it is even given short, snorting solos. These passages are practiced...
After the days of the proud, heavily-gilded, soft-cushioned Athenaeum, the Howard sunk to playing cheap variety shows in 1868. Ever since the name Old Howard has been used. For years the blue-lighted anatomical solos have brought the crowds past the box office.