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Handel: Concerto in B Minor for Viola (William Primrose, viola, with the RCA-Victor Orchestra, Frieder Weissmann conducting; Victor, 5 sides). Handel seems to be making a comeback. This little-known, stately and graceful concerto was arranged by Henri Casadesus (uncle of Pianist Robert) in 1925, and is performed with spirit and fine tone by Primrose. Recording: excellent...
...opening series of concerts include a performance of Brahms' Symphony No. 2 in D minor on July 24, and the "Harold in Italy" symphony by Berlioz with William Primrose as viola soloist. These will be under the direction of Dr. Koussevitzky, while the final concert of this series will follow the baton of Leonard Bernstein, who will lead the Orchestra in Schubert's Symphony No. 7 and Stravinsky's "Sacre du Printemps...
Plants occasionally do the analyzing themselves. Many dissolved minerals are poison to some plants and healthy food to others. A certain wild pansy (Viola calaminaria, et zinci) thrives on the waste dumps of zinc mines where little else can survive. The presence of other plants points to copper, lead or petroleum...
Brahms: Sonata in F Minor (William Primrose, viola; William Kapell, piano; Victor, 6 sides). One of Brahms's last compositions, written originally for piano and clarinet, but alternately for piano and viola, in Brahms's heavy romantic style. Performance: good...
...Sentenced to life imprisonment with him were Accomplices Amleto Poveromo and Giuseppe Viola (still at large). Two others were acquitted, two "absolved...