Word: vox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mozart: Piano Music for Four Hands (Ingrid Haebler and Ludwig Hoffmann, pianists; Vox, mono). A two-album collection of six four-hand piano sonatas (plus the Andante and Variations in G Major), the first written when Mozart was 9, the last when he was 31, just before he finished Don Giovanni. The treasures here are the Sonata No. 4 in F Major and the Sonata No. 5 in C Major, Pianists Haebler and Hoffmann play them with leafy serenity, geysering wit, and a crystal touch that never grows hard or metallic...
Heavenly Echoes of My Fair Lady (George Feyer, pianist; Vox LP). Pianist Feyer gives the familiar songs the treatment they might have received from such squares as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff. Frédéric FrançoisChopin, Giuseppe Verdi, e.g., Get Me to the Church on Time as a victory march from a Verdi opera. One of the cleverest parodies since Alex Templeton took Johann Sebastian Bach to town...
...Vox Populi. In Detroit, Law Student Frank Castelluccio noticed on his absentee ballot that no one was running for the New Buffalo, Mich, township's Highway Commissioner, idly wrote himself in, was elected by one vote...
...Vox Populi. In Washington, New Hampshire's Senator Norris Cotton received a fan letter from a high-school girl: "All my friends are saving pictures of movie stars, and I want to be different, so please send me photos of twelve senators, but pick carefully, even the best are sort of funny looking...
Organ: The widespread impression amongst a section of the musical public that a unit organ consists of about a dozen vox humanas and a powerful tremulant is based upon observation of the performances of the injudicious...