Word: violins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been substituted for the Dawes Plan. The unrealists sighed with relief. Said Briand: "There will be no more victors now, and no more defeated.' To symbolize the new international harmony there was an international radio concert. "The piano," said the woman announcer, "is in Paris, the first violin is in Vienna, the oboe is in London. . . . The conductor of the orchestra is in Berlin." "I hope," said Czech Prime Minister Benes, "that last isn't symbolic...
William Walton: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Jascha Heifetz, with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eugene Goossens; Victor; 6 sides). Fine first recording of a pulsing score. Lanky Composer Walton wrote it for Heifetz in 1939, but the composer, a British ambulance driver, never heard his work out loud until this recording was sent to England by Clipper...
Professor Archibald T. Davidson will lead the carol singing and Mr Malcolm Holmes will contribute violin solos, accompanied by Professor Edward Ballantine...
Mozart: Concerto No. 3 in E Flat Major for Horn and Orchestra (Aubrey Brain and the BBC Symphony, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; Victor; 4 sides; $2.50) and Duo No. 2 in B Flat Major for Violin and Viola (Jascha Heifetz and William Primrose; Victor; 5 sides; $3). Two out-of-the-way items, finely tooled...
...following that, on November 1, Frank Glazer, the eminent Boston pianist. The opportunity to hear Huberman is a rare and exceptional one, for Huberman has in past years been known to this country chiefly through his tremendous reputation in Europe. Those who know his recording of the Tchaikowski Violin Concerto may recall that his style in that is brilliant and flashy, pretty much on the slick side, and he seems to be the only one of the Leopold Auer brood of violinists who has developed this way. It would be interesting to compare his concert Sunday with the old recording...