Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist Victor Kravchenlco won satisfaction of a sort from the pro-Communist Paris weekly Les Lettres Françaises, which had charged that he never wrote I Chose Freedom and that it was full of lies anyway. Victor sued for three million francs ($10,000). After weeks of lurid courtroom charges and countercharges, the judge ordered the weekly to pay the court a 15,000-franc ($50) fine, pay Kravchenko 150,000 francs ($500) damages, and print the court decision on its front page...
Almost overnight, with Victor, Columbia, Capitol and Decca waxing it fast, "A" You're Adorable ("B" you're so beautiful, "C" you're a cutie . . .*) was a case of "H" you're a hit. In two weeks, Como's dreamy, dulcet disking (Victor) alone has sold a quarter of a million records. Says Businessman Buddy: "The other two guys just can't get over...
Kabalevslcy: Sonata No. 3, Opus 46 (Vladimir Horowitz, piano; Victor, 4 sides). Contemporary Soviet Composer Dmitri Kabalevsky's melodic, if Mussorgsky-ish, piece is more Pianist Horowitz' meat than the Mozart Sonata in F Major, K. 332, also available this month. Both recordings: good...
Schumann: Manfred Overture (the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 3 sides). One of Toscanini's greatest performances on records. Beethoven's Consecration of the House Overture, on the remaining three sides, doesn't give Toscanini as much to work with. Recording: excellent...
Verdi: Aïda (Beniamino Gigli, tenor; Maria Caniglia, soprano; Ebe Stignani, mezzo-soprano; Gino Bechi, baritone; Italo Tajo, bass, and others with the Rome Opera Orchestra and chorus, Tullio Serafin conducting; Victor, 40 sides). With such a cast, Aïda should have come off brilliantly; instead, it just barely comes off, with some good singing (Ebe Stignani's) and some bad (e.g., Gigli's Celeste Aïda is painful). Recording: fair...