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Paul Hindemith: Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 11, No. 4 (William Primrose and Jesús Maria Sanromá; Victor: 4 sides). One of the most beautiful of contemporary viola sonatas, written in 1922, long before Composer Hindemith became a Kulturbolschewist...
Brahms: Sonata in F Minor for Clarinet and Piano (David Weber and Ray Lev; Musicraft: 6 sides). Composer Brahms's two sonatas for clarinet and piano belong to his last, maturest period. Though recorded in an arrangement for viola, the F Minor sonata has waited till now for its first waxing in original form. The sonata is beautiful, the performance adequate...
Thirty-four years ago, when Conductor Stock left his place among the orchestra's viola players to succeed Thomas as the Chicago Symphony's head man, Chicago concertgoers were skeptical. During his first year Chicago newspapers printed scathing articles about the need for a more eminent conductor. But patient, plodding Stock stuck to his guns. In the many seasons since then he has made himself a reputation as one of the topflight U. S. conductors. Genial Frederick Stock prefers, and conducts best, the works of the German romantics, but he gives his audience a more varied and balanced...
...Faithful Mary" (Viola Wilson), Father Divine's onetime chief female angel, who quit last year after declaring: "He's just a damned man-he ain't no more God than you're God," returned to his Harlem colony from Los Angeles when he sent her a diamond and sapphire ring. Said Faithful Mary: "He really...
...Pillney, professor at the Cologne College of Music, who will play the harpsichord and who has revised and published several of Bach's works for this instrument; karl Schwanberger, professor at the same college and formerly a member of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, who specializes in the violoncello and viola da zamba; and Reinhard Fritsche, a wellknown flute and solo artist of the Bluethner Orchestra in Borlin...