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...symphonic poem called Memorial to Lidice. In Philadelphia, Eugene Ormandy was rehearsing a third new Martinu composition, a Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, with the help of duo-Pianists Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff. In Boston, Sergei Koussevitzky was planning a December premiere for Martinu's third Violin Concerto...
...does not work in their sunlit, melodically fecund vein. The emotional tone of his music is measured, but it has genuine dignity, drama and decided individuality. Softspoken, shy, 52-year-old Martinu grew up in the little Czech town of Policka, where his father was a shoemaker, played the violin for a decade with the famed Czech Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague. In 1923 he went to Paris, stayed for nearly 20 years. A very serious man, who studies physics and biology for relaxation, he is too busy with new music to try to reconstruct many scores he was forced...
...strength of Dardanella's fame, Black decided to take Paper Doll off the shelf. In his dingy apartment off Times Square he had Publisher Edward B. Marks to dinner, played him the tune on the violin. Marks bought it for $25 advance royalties...
Precise Vision. The Duke who emerges when the bars of modernity are down is a deep and thoughtful man. A tall, awkward, lonely, violin-playing boy whose father died when he was twelve, he did not want to be a soldier. He wanted to work in a bank. He learned the effectiveness of the armies of revolutionary France when he commanded the rear guard in the Duke of York's disastrous expedition to The Netherlands in 1794, from which 6,000 of 25,000 recruits returned. With the clear-sightedness of innocent sanity he knew thereafter that England could...
Elegant Form. It was Ole's life and character which inspired Ibsen with the lurid idea of Peer Gynt. Born in 1810, brought up by prosperous parents in the little provincial fishing town of Bergen, Ole Bornemann Bull flatly refused to obey his childhood violin teachers. At 23 he was playing quartets in many prominent European salons, carousing and dueling on the side. In Paris he met 14-year-old Félicie Alexandrine Villeminot, daughter of a French official. After four years he married her. Then he spent years trying to convince her that she should live permanently...