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...return: "No, I have stopped being sentimental." It was a trouper's speech, and Flagstad is a trouper. She has been singing opera now for 37 years, and the theater is in her blood and background. Her father worked in Oslo's Central Theater as a violinist and conductor, her mother as a vocal coach. The first score that flaxen-haired Kirsten ever "yelled out" as a child was Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado. She learned Lohengrin before...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. i p.m., CBS). All-Brahms program. Guest: Violinist Zino Francescatti...
...loved selling," could sometimes let his enterprising imagination run wild. Once he billed a faltering troupe of dancers as "Dancers of Vice, Horror and Ecstasy," had to give extra performances to accommodate the crowds. Among the agency's clients were Soprano Lotte Lehmann, Conductor Fritz Busch, a young violinist named Eugene Ormandy, and a troupe of Russian dancers which included Nina Schelemskaya-Schelesnaya, who later shortened her name to Mrs. Rudolf Bing...
Mozart: Concerto No. 18, K.456 (Lili Kraus, pianist; with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Walter Goehr conducting; Decca-Parlophone, 2 sides LP). This is one of Mozart's finest concertos, and Pianist Kraus plays it strongly and forthrightly. Completing the second side, with Violinist Szymon Goldberg, she plays the unfinished Sonata K.404. Performance and recording: good...
...Prokofiev's Concerto No. 1 and Roussel's Second Sonata and was soundly rebuked by many critics at the time. He is just as eager to discover new old music, for that matter. "Nothing would please me more than to find a lost Mendelssohn sonata," says Violinist Szigeti. "Digging into the remote corners of music keeps one bright and shiny...