Word: trios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head atop a 60-foot pole, which thereupon breaks in half. In the neighboring reaches of the Boston Garden loft, Mr. Morituri is holding a perforated steel sphere in his teeth while Mrs. Morituri cycles around the inside. Below, fearless janitors are carrying off card-tables that the Realles Trio have just been spinning on their feet...
...Ravel: Trio in A Minor (Artur Rubinstein, piano; Jascha Heifetz, violin; Gregor Piatigorsky, cello; Victor, I side LP). The most interesting of the three trios (the other two: Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn) recorded by the famed artists who formally combined their talents for the first time at Chicago's Ravinia Park (TiME, Aug. 22, 1949). The playing in all three is sensitively superb. Recording: excellent...
...program concluded with a set of variations by Saint-Saens. The piece begins with the simple, lovely, Trio melody from the second movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Opus 31, No. 2. Then follows a series of flashy but inartistic variations, which leads to a restatement of the theme, and a final flourish of octave passages. The work as a whole is typical of those many fluffy compositions by the Frenchman which are fun to watch, fun to play, but certainly not great music...
...Trio in E flat, for the weird combination of piano, violin, and French horn, is one of the most delightful of Brahms' early creations. The three instruments sound surprisingly well together and the music itself, though-not possessing the vitality and depth of the more mature composer, has many interesting moments...
...Trio. Another trim package of Somerset Maugham short stories, fragile but handled with care by the British producers of Quartet (TIME...