Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most-played of his orchestral works is the American Festival Overture, written for Koussevitzky in 1939, and based on a boys' street call "wee-awk-ee" (meaning "c'mon over"). This month the Overture is out on a record (National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hans Kindler; Victor). The first major example of Schuman's music on disks, it is a lusty, cleanly written, skin-deep score. No atonalist, William Schuman composes with independent spirit, says of his music, "For better or worse, it sounds the way I want...
Vivaldi: Concerto Grosso in D Minor (Boston Symphony conducted by Serge Koussevitzky ; Victor; 3 sides). Eleventh, and most familiar, of the dozen "harmonious raptures" of the red-bearded Venetian priest whose music Bach so often transcribed, recorded (before Boss Petrillo's ban) by the Boston Symphony's matchless strings, with some woodwind help...
Brahms: Trio No. 1 , in B Major (Artur Rubinstein, piano; Jascha Heifetz, violin; Emanuel Feuermann, cello; Victor; 8 sides). Three great artists, tops in their fields, submerged their prima donna instincts late last summer in Victor's Hollywood studios to breathe rich new life into an old trio...
Moanin' Low (Lena Home; Victor; 8 sides). Old favorites, such as Stormy Weather, The Man I Love, sung sensationally by the soulful Negro torchsinger, lately of Manhattan's Café Society, now in Hollywood...
Waller on the Ivories (Thomas "Fats" Waller; Victor; 8 sides). First album anthology of Waller's piano recordings, from Handful of Keys (1929) to Hoagy Carmichael's Rockin' Chair (1941). No clowning, no singing, not quite the carefree honky-tonk mood, but high-powered, sure-fingered work...