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...Philadelphia last week, famed Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, 63, came out of a three-year retirement to solo with the Philadelphia Orchestra. His reason: he wanted to play the world premiere of Gian-Carlo (The Consul) Menotti's Violin Concerto in A Minor...
...turned out to be a happy decision for everybody. The songful style that marks Menotti's operas was apparent in the concerto, and its easygoing expression was well suited to Zimbalist's delicate tone and refined phrasing. For Philadelphians it was pleasant listening; the audience gave a rousing round of applause to the violinist, the composer and Conductor Eugene Ormandy...
...think about a libretto. "After I get a couple more operas out of my system I will concentrate on concert music alone," he says. "But I'll never write to a deadline again. Trying to finish the concerto in time, I had a sick stomach for days. Zimbalist only had three weeks to memorize his part. He had a sick stomach...
Like the imperial Caesars, Producer Sam (King Solomon's Mines) Zimbalist and Director Mervyn (Anthony Adverse) LeRoy rely on these circuses to keep their audience diverted from sterner matters. For all the majesty of the theme and magnificence of the trimmings, the story of Quo Vadis, based on Henryk Sienkiewicz' 1895 novel, never rises much above the level of a good melodrama...
...made a start at writing, but died, in 1898, before she reached the point in Wagner's life where her material might have shed fresh light. Thereupon, Mary Burrell's collection was locked away. Finally, thanks to Philadelphia's Mary Louise Curtis Bok (Mrs. Efrem Zimbalist), who bought the collection in 1931, and to John N. Burk, scholarly program annotator of the Boston Symphony Orchestra who spent years collating and editing it, the Letters of Richard Wagner went to press...