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...Coogie," born in Barcelona, plays Cuban rhythms watered-down and violin-perfumed, but with enough gourd rattling to make them sound authentic. For this the Cuban Government regards him as an ambassador of culture-with the title of Commander in the Order of Honor and Merit of the Cuban Red Cross...
...first concert next month will be in Hollywood Bowl. Says Cugat: "That's a laugh, isn't it? When I was here playing concert violin I was fully qualified to conduct in the Hollywood Bowl. . . . But I couldn't get in to see the secretary to the secretary. Now I will get $5,000 and the manager of the symphony comes to my house with the contract. . . . You've got to be a personality. Even Toscanini and Stokowski owe part of their success to showmanship. And take a man like Iturbi. He has the hands...
...gadget, called an electro-cello, was the latest of scientists' attempts to improve on the aged wood and fine Italian hand of the old violin makers. It was fashioned by Caltech's seismologist Dr. Hugo Benioff, who gave up violin playing as a boy because he couldn't stand the noise he made. Eighteen years ago, when he was designing seismographs to measure earthquakes, he decided that there wasn't much difference between a seismograph and a fiddle "except one deals with slow movements and the other with rapid movements." For his scientific cello he mounted...
Fielding has also signed up Jeanette MacDonald, and has his heart set on getting Deanna Durbin ("My inspiration came when I was little more than a child and saw Deanna Durbin in 100 Men and a Girl"). Fielding is a former child prodigy who made concert violin tours at eleven, studied under Joseph Szigeti, spent the war staging concerts for the London Philharmonic in 70 provincial towns. As a budding impresario, he always bills himself above his artists. Last week, for another Kostelanetz concert, he modestly gave himself second billing to royalty. His posters read: "In the gracious presence...
...arranger and two lyricists set to work. From Mendelssohn's Ruy Bias Overture and the slow movement of the Violin Concerto in E Minor they pasted together a scene in an "opera" they billed as Marie Antoinette; from Liszt's Les Préludes, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 14 and Liebesträume they contrived another called My Country. Sample lyrics...