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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...
Most radical change in the Philharmonic's ranks, the engagement of a new first trombonist named William Jack Satterfield, caused heated comment not only among Carnegie Hall's long hairs but throughout the music marts of Broadway's dance-band industry. No highbrow, Trombonist Satterfield, son of...
Last week London publishers' sales of printed music had risen 40 to 60% above the pre-war normal. A sentimental, serious ballad, I'll Walk Beside You, has sold 750,000 copies-more than twice the biggest popular-song sale. The only slump has been in the songs...
This big Prom season is also a testimony to the labors of grey-bearded Conductor Sir Henry Wood, 73. Sir Henry, a born Londoner who drops his haitches, is a British Walter Damrosch. He started the Proms as glorified ballad concerts, raised them gradually during 48 years to a symphonic...
Three months ago it seemed hopeless. The swanky Berkshire Symphonic Festival, after much hemming and hawing, had called off its annual summer festival in the western Massachusetts hills. Gas rationing and tire conservation made bucolic concerts risky business. But Conductor Koussevitzky was in a dither-partly at the thought of...