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Meanwhile, the Grand Prix ground on. Around 1 a.m. on orders from Stuttgart, Mercedes pulled out of the race. After a while, rain pelted down. The race and the crowd's vigil continued. But when Mike Hawthorn's Jaguar ripped past the finish line to win the 1955 Le Mans next afternoon, few people even bothered to cheer...
...into these little charmers as he does into his more famed operas (Der Freischutz, Oberon, Euryanthe). Other notable new releases: Brahms's German Requiem (soloists, Frankfurt Opera Chorus and Orchestra and Museum Orchestra conducted by Georg Sold; Capitol, 2 LPs); Giuseppe Torelli's Twelve Concert!, Op. 8 (Stuttgart Pro Musica String Orchestra conducted by Rolf Reinhardt; Vox, 3 LPs). Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, in fine performances by Jascha Heifetz and London's Philharmonia Orchestra under Walter Susskind (Victor), and Zino Francescatti and the New York PhilhaononicSymphony under Dimitri Mitropoulos (Columbia); Prokofiev's Violin Concerto...
...Pros. In Stuttgart, Germany, seven counterfeiters were arrested after it was noticed that the 5-mark pieces they were making were of far better quality than legitimate ones...
...orchestra generally tours for two weeks at a time, then returns to Stuttgart in its two buses and 6 by 6 truck "to take the dents out of our instruments." The players carry their own music racks and chairs wherever they go, pay for instrument repairs and similar incidentals out of their own pockets. "The hardest job is to convince people that we're a symphony orchestra and not a band," explains the orchestra's advance man, Sergeant Regis Cronauer. "At one post they wanted us to play in an abandoned hangar that had become a bird sanctuary...
...Stuttgart, Germany, Dr. George Fahrbach, president of the West German Association of Nature Lovers, demanded that a law be passed against picnickers who carry portable radios. His modest hope, said Fahrbach, is "to prevent songbirds from being drowned out by raucous radio jazz...