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When young (27) British Pianist George Shearing went job-hunting two years ago on Manhattan's jazz-drenched 52nd Street, he had some impressive clippings to show. For six years he had been voted Britain's No. 1 jazz pianist. Like another successful British-born pianist, Alec Templeton, George had been sightless from birth. But at six he had begun music lessons at London's Linden Lodge School for the Blind, kept at the classics until he was 17, when he decided he could make his living at jazz...
...half years ago, Station WBMS was organized by the Templeton Radio Manufacturing Company to bring good music throughout the day to what was considered an exceptionally music-conscious radio audience. Since that time, the story of Boston's Music Station has been one of a pioneer yielding to economic pressure...
Unfortunately, WBMS steadily lost money. The Endowment Series (which was "endowed" in name only) alone cost Templeton $117,000--money that will never be recovered. Faced with this big loss, Templeton sold WBMS in July, 1948, to a Steubenville, Ohio, company that operates a group of Eastern radio stations...
...orchestra and three soloists through a jangling, abrasive concerto for harp, harpsichord, piano and strings by Swiss Composer Frank Martin. Last week, he pulled out another new work: the Symphony No. 5 of Czech Composer Bohuslav Martinu. Another surprise: a seldom-heard work by 91-year-old U.S. Expatriate Templeton Strong, who left for Switzerland some 50 years ago in a rage because he couldn't get his music performed at home...
Shortly, M-G-M will put out Lionel Barrymore's reading of A Christmas Carol, hopes to sell up to 500,000 albums at $3.75; RCA Victor will add eight more albums to its present 43. Among them: Alec Templeton's Pied Piper of Hamelin...