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Fifty-two years ago, a young pianist played his company best for the critical ears of a celebrated violinist. When he had finished, the violinist patted him on the shoulder, said: "You have talent. Work hard and you will go far." Pianist Artur Rubinstein was then six; his critic, Bronislaw Hubermann, was twelve...
...three shows. It was in 1935, with Town Hall Tonight, that Fred really got on the radio beam. Not long after, he latched on to the biggest stunt of his career: his feud with Jack Benny. One night he assured a guest on his program, a twelve-year-old violinist, that he played the Flight of the Bumble Bee better than Benny played it after 40 years of practicing. Showman Benny knew a cue when he heard one. For ten years radio's biggest running gag has been kept alive without a single backstage strategy conference...
...other four sides the gauntleted hand of Director Leonard Feather, whose outlook on hot music is in general futuristic, can be detected. Tenor saxophonist Don Byas, and violinist-trumpeter Roy Nance, vie with each other to see who can try the most technical innovations in sixteen minutes. Nance even drags in a little pizzicato on one of his opening violin choruses. Through it all, however, snatches of Heywood may be heard which, though a bit incongruous in such company are responsible for whatever merit there is in this half...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). A one-hour program in celebration of the late Alexander Graham Bell's 100th birthday. Guests: Soprano Helen Traubel, Violinist Jascha Heifetz, Actor Raymond Massey...
...also a pretty tough business. In the music business, austere, unapproachable Arthur Judson has the making or breaking of scores of careers. James Caesar Petrillo sets the minimum wages for U.S. musicians; it is Judson who often gets the maximum for the best ones. Judson was once a professional violinist, but he learned early that there is more money in managing artists than in being one. The money he gets from the Philharmonic is peanuts to him ($15,000 a year) but the prestige and power count. Today his Columbia Concerts Inc. grosses $5 million a year, keeps Lily Pons...