Word: virtuoso
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Beethoven: Concerto No. 3 in C Minor (Jose Iturbi, pianist and conductor, with the Rochester Philharmonic; Victor; nine sides). In one of the great concertos, Iturbi again performs his pet virtuoso stunt; mechanically better than the earlier Victor recording by Beethoven Specialist Artur Schnabel...
...accident rate rises in suburban U.S. communities this fall because citizens are hit by flying sticks, insurance companies can blame a game called Kangaroo Golf. Invented and patented by internationally famed Composer-Organist Pietro Yon, virtuoso at Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, it has the same object as golf and can be set up in any good-sized yard...
...virtuoso, Petrophonist Troxell confines himself principally to scholarly renditions of such well-known compositions as Chopsticks, but occasionally rattles off a more ambitious classic. Says he: "People are impressed when I say I can play the Largo from Dvorak's New World Symphony, but, you know, that is really very simple...
Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski, with Cellist Benar Heifetz, Pianists Jeanne Behrend and Sylvan Levin; Victor; 6 sides; $3.50). Slick virtuoso performance of banal zoological portraits-elephants, cuckoos, tortoises, pianists, critics, the famed "dying" swan...
...greatest harmonicist. Soon The Bronx Symphony Orchestra, 70-piece group which has been rehearsing for months, will play with Larry Adler as harmonica artist. He will blow, note for note, the solo part of a classic concerto originally written for the violin, Vivaldi's A Minor. For Virtuoso Adler, such symphonic antics are nothing new. Nor do most people consider them reprehensible...