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Brahms: Quartet No. 3, Op. 60 (Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano; Alexander Schneider, violin; Milton Katims, viola; Frank Miller, cello; Mercury, 7 sides). Mercury could hardly have gotten together a finer ensemble (Schneider is a Budapest Quartet alumnus; Katims and Miller are both first chair men in Toscanini's NBC Symphony) to bring this grimly powerful Brahms quartet back on the record shelves. Performance and recording : excellent...
...Stignani is a gay little woman who admits to being "only as old as I look" (early fortyish). The night after her concert last week, she went to dinner with Arturo Toscanini, who had listened in frowning silence to her voice when she was 20, then next day sent her a contract to sing at Milan's La Scala. At dinner, says Ebe, "Maestro was in a reminiscing mood, but he only covered the period 1898 to 1913-not my time...
Maestro Arturo Toscanini, already heavy with honors, garnered a new one. After an NBC Symphony rehearsal, an amateur photographer caught him beaming and being congratulated by onetime Heavyweight Champion Primo ("Old Satchelfoot") Carnera, now a prosperous wrestler. It developed that they are mutual admirers...
...Symphony (Sat. 6 rsop.m., NBC). Toscanini conducting a Mozart, Dvorak and Wagner program...
...Israel Philharmonic played Hatikvah (the Jewish national anthem) at the inaugural of the State of Israel in May, the orchestra has given 70 concerts, 23 of them on the road. Actually the orchestra is older than the state; it was known as the Palestine Symphony Orchestra when Arturo Toscanini led its first performance twelve years ago. Tel Aviv's Ohel Shem hall, where the orchestra usually plays, holds only 1,100. There the orchestra repeats each concert nine times to accommodate the crowds. It has played on, undismayed by blackouts, air raids, or the impertinent obbligato of small arms...