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Bartok: Sonata for Violin Solo (Yehudi Menuhin, violinist; Victor, 6 sides 45 r.p.m.). Few composers since Bach have been able to write successful sonatas for solo violin. Bartok did, a year before his death in 1945, and Menuhin proves it. Recording: excellent...
...Scandinavian Symphony Orchestra actually goes back some 20 years. Early in its history the late motor magnate William S. Knudsen, who liked to relax with his Scandinavian friends, gave them a bass viol. The orchestra had no musician to play it, but that was fixed in a hurry. Violinist Chris Marck was tapped because he had a car large enough to carry a bass viol...
...Pittsburgh violinist last week lost his job because he was named as a Communist. Max Mandel had fiddled among the first violins in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for five seasons. Last week, after a former FBI agent had told the House Un-American Activities Committee that offstage Mandel fiddled earnestly in the party key, he was called to answer by the executive board of Pittsburgh Local No. 60 of the American Federation of Musicians. After a hearing, the union ousted him. Pittsburgh Symphony officials wore a hands-off look. A spokesman explained the obvious: "To play with the orchestra...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Soloist: Violinist Nathan Milstein...
Beethoven: Sonata No. 7, Op. 30 No. 2 (Joseph Szigeti, violin; Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Violinist Szigeti's expressiveness and devoted musicianship go a long way towards making up for his often raspy tone-far enough in fact to make this an excellent performance. Recording: good...