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Your Invitation to Music (Sun. i p.m., CBS). Guests: Contralto Martha Lipton; Conductor George Szell of the Cleveland Orchestra...
...announced that he would abdicate at the end of his 25 years of autocratic rule (TIME, April 19, 1948), they had been discussing heirs more apparent-31-year-old Koussevitzky Protege Leonard Bernstein, the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's part-time Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, Cleveland's George Szell...
Schumann: Symphony No. 4 (the Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). One of Schumann's most listenable works. Conductor Szell's performance is fine, but it comes off records with a feeling of tightness...
...Among the recipients: Arturo Toscanini, Serge Koussevitzky, Leopold Stokowski, Bruno Walter, George Szell, Eduard van Beinum in Amsterdam, Sir Thomas Beecham in London, Pierre's son Jean Monteux in Paris...
Mozart: Symphony No. 39, K. 543 (Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Conductor Szell rides one of Mozart's finest and most spirited blue bloods with too tight a rein. Recording: good...