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...savory, romantic portrait of the cello virtuoso Gregor Piatigorsky won first prize last week at Pittsburgh's annual Carnegie Institute Exhibition, wartime successor to the famed Carnegie International show. The $1,000 prize winner is by 60-year-old, Indiana-born Wayman Adams, since 1926 a member of the archconservative National Academy, who first showed his Piatigorsky last year at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. In the past, Carnegie judges have sometimes recognized painting of decided originality, such as Peter Blume's South of Scranton. This year's safe & sane first choice prompted one observer to wisecrack...
Last Sunday's program was probably the best so far in the current season of Sanders Theatre Concerts, at least from the standpoint of technical perfection. Georges Laurent demonstrated his marvelous precision and control of the flute by playing three difficult virtuoso numbers in succession. The Mozart quartet, K. 285 and the Roussel Serenade, Op 30 were played in combination with a small string ensemble; the Three Pieces by Walter Piston was a woodwind trio,--flute, clarinet, and bassoon. This composition, one of Piston's earliest, has a humorous grotesqueness and vitality apparently much appreciated by the Cambridge audience...
Today only a handful of virtuoso ocarinists rate the honor of membership in Boss James Caesar Petrillo's American Federation of Musicians. But the "sweet potato" has its quota of passionate partisans...
...coats, shrunken-ankle pants, and knee-length watch chains which tinkled in the 4 a.m. gloom. Zootsuited or not, they lined up at Manhat tan's Paramount Theater box office and waited. They were jitterbugs, and they were there to dig Harry Haag James, one time circus contortionist, virtuoso trumpeter, and leader of the nation's swing band sensation...
Bright Corner. Outside Mexico, the Latin American art tended to be less obsessed with horror. In one remote corner was tucked the Uruguayan Figari's Creole Dance, whose mood was as joyously vivid as its virtuoso coloring...