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...Four Sonatas for Piano (Zadel Skolovsky; Columbia). A talented pianist enthusiastically takes on four distinctive 20th century styles: Scriabin's still-misty modernity (Sonata No. 4); Alban Berg's early and rather turbid atonality (Sonata, Op. 1) ; Bartok's lean, athletic, but vividly coherent paganism (Sonata); and Hindemith's smooth-flowing manner that says little at great length (Sonata No. 2). The performances are clean and sure...
...plan: to win new audiences for records by making music "painless." Among his other recent projects: a series of almost featureless "mood music" (TIME, Feb. 22), e.g., "Music to Read By," "Music to Help You Sleep," and a 2 min. 52 sec. orchestral condensation of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata for the disk-jockey trade. Such popularizations, some serious musicians feel, kill not only the pain but the music...
Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No. 1 (David Oistrakh, violin, & Lev Oborin, piano; Vanguard). One of the world's finest fiddlers, Soviet Artist Oistrakh has never been recorded to better advantage. The subtlety of color, the sudden shock of ringing plucked strings, the driving intensity of dramatic episodes, all add up to the definitive recording of a major composition...
Kletzsch's work is entitled Sonata in A Major for Piano." The three other pieces, all sonatas, are for piano and flute...
...bill to amend the Constitution has been reported favorably by the Sonata Judiciary Committee and is expected to reach a floor vote within the next few weeks. Senator John F. Kennedy '40 (D-Mass) reports that to date there seems to be little interest in this legislation in Washington. Kennedy told the CRIMSON that he would prefer several states to take the initiative and try voting at 18 before a Federal amendment is attempted. He added, however, "When the amendment is presented for vote on the floor of the Senate, I will vote...