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...recorded, among other "Americana," glossy Negro spirituals and Irving Berlin's White Christmas. His second Decca album, out this month (Gershwin, arranged by Jascha Heifetz; Decca, 8 sides), contained Porgy and Bess songs and three Gershwin preludes, brilliantined up with double stops and Heifetz glissandi. Although the violin is probably the instrument least suited for jazz solos, Decca announced that Heifetz' next album will be Hexapoda-"five studies in Jitteroptera." Said Decca's President Jack Kapp: "If Bing can sing Ave Maria, why can't Heifetz do boogie-woogie...
...ballets in the Ballet Russe's Manhattan repertory this season, eight were Balanchine's. The best, Concerto Barocco, consisted of a few hippy girls in black swim suits, against a plain blackdrop, contorting their bodies in strict but living counterpoint to Bach's Double Violin Concerto in D Minor. It had none of the splendiferous sets and costumes, the "story" told in pantomime, or the applause-bidding entrechats of a star dancer which attract the matinee mobs; yet it brought down the house. Balanchine's geometric wizardry made the girls' bodies spell out Bach...
...Bartók's own favorites was his early (1907) Portrait No. 1 in D, in which a tender strain of violin melody was originally played by the concertmaster from his seat in the orchestra. Bartók once begged Szigeti: "You must rescue it, take it out of the orchestra." Last week Szigeti played it as a violin concerto, with Leonard Bernstein's New York City Symphony, in its first Manhattan performance. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "How music of such extraordinary value can have escaped [our] attention . . . for four decades is difficult to understand...
...substituting harpsichord for piano, Victor has produced a version (DM-1035) of J. S. Bach's Third Sonata for violin and clavier in E flat more faithful to the Seventeenth Century style than the recording cut several years ago by Yehudi Menuhin and his sister Hepzibah. Although the harpsichord part may be slightly less important than the violin, the precision and vigor commanded by Wanda Landowska provide a better accompaniment for Menuhin than the carefully uninspired piano performance by his sister...
...crowd." Until this week, when radio's unsung bit players and stooges were finally honored by Hall of Fame (ABC, Sun., 6-6:30 p.m., E.S.T.), few listeners knew Mel by name. But millions probably knew him as Jack Benny's English butler, train announcer, parrot, French violin teacher and news reporter; as Burns & Allen's melancholy postman; as Judy Canova's Pedro, Salesman Roscoe Wortle and a chronic hiccougher; as Bob Hope's "Private Snafu"; as Abbott & Costello's Scotsman...