Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farthest roving musicians. He often talks of slowing down to give some time to teaching, but he is now in the midst of a countrywide tour, will play some 80 concerts by the end of April, then pack his Guarneri and head for his second tour of Russia (six weeks) before hitting the European summer festival circuit. Last week Stern was not in the least bothered at having to play three concertos on one program. In Israel, he recalls, he once played two concertos at a 5 p.m. concert, another three at 9 p.m. Says he, "I'm like...
...black-eared fox terrier on the cover of 60 Years of Music America Loves Best is a reminder that only the most famous U.S. recording company could have put together such an assortment. But the hit album (last week it was selling 5,000 copies a day) also expressed the Janus headed personality of the man who conceived it-a lanky, Viennese-born ex-advertising man and music critic named George Richard Marek...
...Everything. As general manager of the RCA Victor Record Division of the Radio Corporation of America, George Marek, 57, ranks as the world's biggest musical merchandiser. In the fiercely competitive, $400 million (retail) record market, Victor claims 25% of total sales. On the Christmas-trade counters last week Victor was pushing both a new Beecham version of Handel's Messiah and the Ames Brothers, a recording of Archibald MacLeish's J.B. and Elvis Presley's newest but possibly fading wails (see SHOW BUSINESS). Marek himself is a dedicated opera lover (among his books: The World...
...glowing Hammer review appeared in the New York World-Telegram & Sun: "His recent death was a tragic loss . . . A great album." Then San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Ralph J. Gleason played the record, found that Buck had an advantage over other pianists -he was apparently born with three hands. Last week the perpetrator of the hoax confessed that he and Hammer were one. His name: Steve Allen...
...morning last week, the long, lanky balloon rose slowly from a sheltered valley in the wooded hills outside Rapid City, S. Dak. Climbing slowly into the far blue sky, it gradually expanded to its full 172-ft. diameter. Huddled in the trim, 7-ft. pressurized spherical gondola that dangled beneath it like an afterthought were two scientists-Commander Malcolm Ross, 40, a balloonist from the Office of Naval Research, and Physicist-Engineer Charles B. Moore Jr., 39, a balloon expert who works for Arthur D. Little Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. Their object: to get mankind's first good look...