Sound on Disc
de Toledano, Ralph
Sound on Disc By Ralph de Toledano The Symphony No. 34, in C Major, is one of Mozart's little known worka. In musical stature, it belongs right beside the E Major (Nd. 39) and that other great C...
...29, in A Major), as a double-barreled album featuring one of my favorite American orchestras, the Boston Symphony led by Serge Koussevitzky...
...RKO PALACE RETURNS TO DOUBLE FEATURE PROGRAM "Highway West," Brenda Marshall's newest starring film, will have its first Broadway showing today (Thursday) at the RKO Palace where the associate attraction will be "Moon Over Miami," the Technicolor musical with Betty Grable...
...Victor, $3.50...
...There is an occassional tendency to slight Beethoven's early chamber music in favor of the "last" quartets...
...The attitude of equality-yes-but-at-a-- distance is characteristic...
...ftOifXT MONTGOMERY IN 'HERE COMES MR...
...This combination will provide the Palace with its first double feature show-since April 30...
...Not even George Raft has been able to destroy utterly the rather primitive appeal of Ravel's Bolerv...
...Carmen Amaya in her first dance film, the U. S. Government Defense Film...
...August 7. » The new comedy, a Columbia Picture, will present an imposing cast of character players in sup-pert of its stars with James Gleaeon appearing as a comic' fight manager, Donald MacBride as a comedy detective, and Edward Everett Horton, Rita Johnson, John Emery, Halliwell Habbes, Don Costeilo and Benny Rubin in other important parts...
...Yet, this woman had wept inky crocodile tears in copious measure about the barbarous treatment of the Negroes in the South, especially Mississippi...
...This is no reason for turning it over to Jose Iturbi and the Rochester Philharmonic...
...In addition to Archie Roobne rind Don Arres...
...These records were probably made a few years ago, before Petrillio and the AFM got tough...
...This is one of Mayor LaGuardia's most successful efforts to offer to the people of New York really high-class music it the lowest possible cost and under the most agreeable conditions...
...It's outright promiscuity...
...You will find brilliance here, and a performance which catches a good deal of the proper spirit The Boston strings, however, are a bit too muscular, their intonation is not altogether what it should be for Mozart...
...The highly educated Northern woman, proud of her intellectual liberalism and Abolitionist ancestry, had written considerably and with feeling about the depressed condition of the Negro, notably in the South...
...The Southern woman, in...
...The attitude of the overwhelming majority of Northern Whites is illustrated by an episode from this writer's experience...
...This distortion of time values gives us more Iturbi than Mozart, a substitution which rather cheats the customer...
...Ku Kan...
...Columbia, which issues a ten-inch C-series album every week, has been sending me the bad ones and overlooking the good...
...Farming - Out...
...But to mingle with Negroes socially, that's going too far...
...On the Music Hall stage beginning Thursday, Russell Marker: will present a song and dance spectacle with Paul Haakon, celebrated dancer, heading the cast of soloists...
...This is a form of snobbery which will cut you off from a good deal of fine music...
...It is not a great piece of music, birt considering the beating it has taken at the hands of musical freaks, it still stands up rather well...
...But since the Beecham recording of the A Major is quite unsatisfactory and C Major quite dated, these new records, with their beautiful tonal reproduction, are the best to date...
...But, on learning that some cultured Negroes would be present, she refused on the grounds: "You know I am all for the Negro and want to give him equality...
...39) and that other great C Major, the Jupiter...
...This case is by no means isolated or extreme...
...With the resumption of its former two-feature policy, the Palace will begin its shows at 9 a. m. on weekdays and at 12 noon on Sundays...
...Jordan" with Robert Montgomery, EVelyn Keyes...
...Ku Kan" is a documentary film with English narration...
...filmed in natural color, will go into its sixth week at the World Theatre July 28...
...20, in D Minor, for Piano and Orchestra, of Mozart, a thing of abidmg»-loveliness tinged with the beginnings of German romanticism...
...For another, Iturbi is no man to be* allowed to solo, much less conduct Mozart...
...Holding over in person are The Four Ink Spots, ErsJcine Hawkins and his orchestra, Stump and Stumpy and Bill Bailey...
...But they are relatively .few in number and do so at the risk of being dubbed "Bohemian," "radical" or what have you...
...Certainly, the Negro is not cn economic menace to the former and, because of his comparative lack of skill and the growing scarcity of labor, hardly threatens the security of the latter...
...Victor, $4.50...
...The Negro profits from it least...
...Like too many musicians whose technique exceeds their taste, Iturbi falls into the ubiquitous use of the rnbato...
...Victor, $2e.50...
...The very-often played Concerto No...
...2, Opus 18, in G Major...
...and Robert Benchley in 'The Forgotten Man" will be retained on this program...
...In this popular offering the really-able cast will certainly appear to even better advantage than it has in the past...
...It is not just a question of fear of economic competition...
...It keeps the Negro in his place as effectively as he is kept in his place by ratheT different methods in the South...
...An enlightened Southern woman invited a certain woman-writer on American social and economic problems to a gathering at her house...
...tibn, headlining Archie leoobini and Dos Arres...
...I missed the Louis Armstrong reissues and the very exciting Cante Flamenco set...
...ADMITTEDLY, an increasing number of Whites dare to violate the established conventions with regard to the Negro to a varying degree...
...So, for the sake of the record, the Budapest string group has recorded Beethoven's Quartet No...
...For one thing, two excellent recordings (by Edwin Fischer and Bruno . Walter) are already in the Victor catalogue...
...Based on the play "Heaven Can Wait" by Harry SegalL "Here Comes Mr...
...TO PERFORM MADAME BUTTERFLY The Triboro Stadium Opera Company offered to a large and happy- audience a really fine performance of La Traviata in the Randall's Island Stadium last Sunday evening...
...Richard Haydn am Ernest Cossart...
...the Corps de Ballet, the Glee Club and the Symphony Orchestra directed by Erno Rapee...
...VictorC;$5.00...
...also starj its itecond week on Friday...
...It is issued this month, along with a rather hurried early Mozart symphony (No...
...Alexander Hall directed and Everett Riskrn produced the comedy for Columbia...
...Charley's Aunt" w»» adase* from the famous comedy ts Brandon Thomas, and fe&tumj its cast of supporting plana Kay Francis, James Ellison, fm Baxter, Edmund Gwenn, RejjQ Owen, Lah-d C re gar, Ansa Whelan...
...and Claude lams in the leading roles will have its premiere on the screen of the Radio City Music Hall Thursday...
...cidentally a Mississippian and descendant of Confederate officers, became thereupon indignantly voluble on the subject of "the revolting mypocricy of damn-Yankees...
...Don Ameche and Robert Cummings...
...I am afraid that I shall never receive this week's album of Red Army songs...
...In reality, the attitude of the American White toward the Negro involves many complex angles and reaches into the deepest recesses of our cultural tradition and social psychology...
...A new edition of the Roar News and Pictorial Review cosh pletes the hold-over program...
...In the new Warner Brothers production "Highway West" directed by William McGann, Miss Marshall is supported by Arthur Kennedy, Olympe Bradna...
...Its records are by definition definitive...
...Stan Ross, the Twstv* Esquires, the Gae Foster Rexy-ettei and Paul Ash win the Roxy Theatre Orchestra...
...ROXf HOLDS OVEI "CHARLEY'S AUNT" FOR 2*4 WEEK Jack Benn:> 's first starring fiiB for 20th Century-Fox, "Oharisri Aunt," will remain for a second week at the Roxy Theatre...
...KU KAN" GOES INTO ITS SIXTH WEEK AT THE WORLD THEATRE Rey Scott's thrilling picturixa-tion of China's great struggle against Japanese aggression...
...SHEPHERD OF THEHILLS" HELD OVER BY PARAMOUNT "The Shepherd of the Hills," the Technicolor film starring John WTayne, Betty Field and Harry Carey, remains at the New York Paramount Theatre for a second week...
...Next Sunday evening...
...Union trouble of some sort has kept Koussevitzky's men from the studios, unfortunately...
...can only be spoiled by a terrible performance...
...The latter will make no concessions to the Negro involving a fundamental emotional and mental reconditioning, such as association on a basis approaching economic-and social equality would require...
...Miss Keyes, who appears as the romantic interest opposite Montgomery, will be making her first appearance in a major role following her successes as Suel-len, Scarlett O^Hara's Sister Vn "Gene With the Wind" and the blind girl in "The Face Behind the Mask...
...the new Ron stage revue features the \jmt Brothers, Ten and Wine^ Ret Bern...
...Although there have been many recordings made in America, this version by Piero Coppola and the Grandes Or-chestre Symponique of Paris is the first one to employ the (slower) tempo which Ravel had in mind when he wrote this music...
...Recording as such, both of orchestra and piano, is excellent...
...JORDAN' AT MUSIC HALL Heralded as one of the outstanding__comedies of the new season, "Here Comes Mr...
...RANDALL'S ISLAND OPERA CO...
...Further comment always seems like a case of paints ing the lily or gilding gold...
...Their action does not influence the mass, which will associate with Negroes only when contact is unavoidable and then with great reluctance, if not revulsion...
...Insofar as we possess economic, social, and cultural democracy, it exists chiefly, if not exclusively for the benefit of the White...
...Jordan" was prepared for the screen by Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller...
...Titled "A Summer Medley.'" the spectacle will, in addition, feature the Roekettes...
...August 10, the company will present Puccini's Madam Butterfly...
...There will be midnight performances every night and popular prices will again be in vogue...
...In these circumstances, the-disinclinatein to let the Negro share in defense work is wholly in keeping with the traditional outlook of the American White...
...William Lundigan and Slim Sommer-ville...
...Most Northern Whites would be wholly in accord with the viewpoint expressed...
...The new* Roxy stage pretesta...
...The arbitrary exclusion of the Negro from defense work seems to be due to the hostility of both executives and workers...
...The Budapest has become more a musieal institution than a quartet...
Vol. 24 • August 1941 • No. 32
