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...Einstein played a simple program sitting down: two movements of a Mozart sonata, an Indian song and a "Russian Dance" by Frida S. Bucky, a Bach minuet for an encore. His able accompanist-pretty Mme. Gaby Casadesus, wife of Concert Pianist Robert Casadesus (unpronounceable, rhymes roughly with "has a canoe")-rippled discreetly at the piano. Dr. Einstein proved that he could play a slow melody with feeling, turn a trill with elegance, jigsaw on occasion. The audience applauded warmly. Fiddler Einstein smiled his broad and gentle smile, glanced at his watch in fourth-dimensional worriment, played his encore, peered...
Musicraft's "Masterpiece" records, competently performed and well recorded, are largely familiar: the Schubert Serenade, the Brahms Lullaby, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, etc. What makes them notable is that they are sold in drug and chainstores. Musicraft's Vice President Paul Puner began experimentally in Manhattan last September, by last week had his platters in 800 stores throughout the land-with sales topping 50,000 a week. Last week Musicraft made a deal with a promoter (anonymous) to sell at least 1,200,000 Masterpiece discs next year in credit furniture and jewelry stores. The records will...
...Sunday afternoon program (which, may I add, is a typical Rachmaninoff program in its popular glitter and lack of musicianly interest): Organ Prelude and Fugue, Bach; a Mendelssohn Rondo; a Chopin Nocturne and two Mazurkas; the Sonetto del Petraca and the Rhapsody No. 11 of Liszt, and Beethoven's Sonata Apparrionata, as well as several compositions of Rachmaninoff...
...label, but just try dancing to it, and the elaborate rhythmic patterns will have you giving out on the old one-two-three-kick... Lionel Hampton's latest offering features an unusual combination: rhythm section with two guitars, Spanish (Douglas Daniels) and electric (Teddy Bunn). Coupling is Pigfoot Sonata and Just for Laffs and both guitars take all the honors (VICTOR)... Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis, Mary Lou Williams, Joe Sullivan and Pete Johnson, are among the eight-beat pianists featured in DECCA's Boogie-Woogie Album. Best of the records is Ammons' Boogie-Woogie Stomp, with the fine trumpet...
Bach: Musical Offering (Yella Pessl, harpsichord, four strings, four wood winds; Victor: 10 sides). First recording, and a fine one, of the ingenious fugues, canons and sonata in which Bach tossed every which way a theme given him by King Frederick the Great (TIME...