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...chatted with the performers on the street, dropped in on rehearsals to turn pages for the players and to delight in Russia's Oistrakh and America's Katchen arguing about a Schubert trio in German: "What difference does it make, Julius, whether we play it at your tempo or mine? We are going to have to play it the way the master tells us." As it worked out, the moderate tempo they agreed upon was much too slow for the cellist's tastes, and they had to press to keep up with his spirited attack...
...turned up full blast a few minutes before showtime. The hapless audience, unaware of what hit it, naturally attributes the sudden lift in spirits to the personality of the performer. And when it comes time for the singer's exit, the orchestra breaks into a fast "bright four" tempo that compels the listeners, whether they want to or not, to applaud briskly in rhythm with the music...
WITH A BEATLE BEAT (Golden) is a new twist for Mother Goose. The lively tempo is sure to tickle youngsters all the way up to teen age, and the lyrics should amuse the small fry jaded by the old nursery rhymes. Best by far: the old woman who feels the pinch of a one-room shoe and moves with all 33 children into a three-room army boot...
President Shetler is a pioneer in G.E.'s aerospace and defense work, was general manager of the company's Defense Programs Division in Washington and headed G.E.'s "think" factory known as Tempo. Roy Larsen, TIME'S first circulation manager and president of Time Inc. from 1939 to 1960, has long had a working interest in education. He helped organize and became chairman of the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools, and was a member of the President's Committee for the White House Conference on Education...
...slim, tense 24-year-old makes his American debut at Carnegie Hall with the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor. The conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, takes the tempo slowly, deliberately. Horowitz's fingers are like coiled springs of Russian steel; they tear with trip-hammer speed and force across the keys, and in the last movement he arrives at the end four measures ahead of the orchestra. The audience roars its affection for the impatient pianist; it is the beginning of a lifelong affair. Even the crusty Beecham cracks a smile. Paderewski calls Horowitz the best...