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...give up her column for good. "What is gossip after all but unkind things said, usually not even based on fact or the truth? I can't add all that trouble to those that already exist, so I have taken up my music [she used to play the violin], my best old, old friends and the quiet peace of quiet living...
...businessman, soft-spoken Francis ("Hank") Knight, 59, is first-class: he is a vice president of Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. Musically, he admits that he is "a perpetual second fiddler." But he loves music, and has been playing chamber music (violin) for 30 years. Other Chicago music lovers have reason to be grateful to busy Banker Knight: he has seen to it that at the end of each year's Ravinia Park festival he gets the best of his favorite kind of music...
...Sunday Observer: "This term 'symbolic realism' is found to embrace the phosphorescent skeleton paintings of Pavel Tchelitchew; a horrific problem picture by Alton Pickens, of the crowning of a dyed ape . . . and Henry Koerner's surrealist picture [TIME, March 27] of a barber playing the violin to his shrouded customers and a monkey-an entertainment which no doubt explains the increased cost of hairdressing in American establishments. Most of these paintings have been worked over again and again with fine and feeble brushstrokes, in the manner of late Victorian anecdotal art, and it is disheartening to find...
...celebrations, Italy's Cetra-Soria Co. has put the case for its countryman in two handsome LP albums. The first includes the Piano Concerto in B Minor, rearranged from Bach's transcription, the Concerto Grosso in D Minor, Op. 3, No. n and a largo from a violin concerto. In the second are the Concerto in E Major for Violin and Strings and Overture to L'Olimpiade. All are worth hearing; the performances and recordings are excellent...
...dusty little French Pyrenees town of Prades (pop. 4,397), the atmosphere was as vibrant as a violin string. Musicians and music-loving tourists from all over Western Europe and the U.S. had clustered there for the most notable of the summer's festivals in honor of Johann Sebastian Bach, who died 200 years ago next month. Prades' festival was centered in one of Bach's most renowned interpreters, 73-year-old Cellist Pablo Casals, who had come out of self-imposed retirement there (TIME, Jan. 30) for the occasion...