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THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. C. SPMMT, «. TURNTABLE TALK E-4 MAKC* IMS | NEWS OF MUSIC Here Are New Sounds Mozart Cycle Billed JjfH At 4 For Speeding Guests RHBB plC' -• ww*lfe*' By JAMES G. DEANE ! work Is familiar In a version By Dirksen, Lywen Up InStamford. Conn., when for concert orchestra arranged he Is not out in the West In- with the composer’s approval By DAT THORPE States for an average of $16.43. dies or some other exotic spot by Gordon Jacobs, a pupil. The Certainly the most unusual Those interested in entering the contest should write Helen with a microphone and tape original Is no less Ingratiating. musical event for which the - N' Havener, National Federation recorder, there is a man named All told, there are really II Mocart anniversary will be Clubs, of Music 445 West Emory Cook who has a pen- pieces on the disc, which the responsible this year Is the Twenty-third street. New York chant fer miking recordings Eastman Symphonic Wind cycle of Mozart violin 11. N. Y. nobody else would think of. ' Ensemble performs with gus- and keyboard sonatas to be The other contest is the Merriweather Post Award of For posterity, Mr. Cook has to. The recorded sound is a ' played this spring and fall by ! SSOO cash and a S6OO scholar- magnetically enshrined the i model. Richard Dirksen and Werner ship ** * * SOPRANO WITH ARMY the Phillips Gal- to the Juilliard School of sound of ocean waves, earth- at Music. The National Sym- NEW BCHUBERTIAN BAND—Evelyn Sachs, who fcry quakes. a burlesque perform- will be guest artist with \ ' phony sent out an announce- department long S (including two ment speeding This not Army Band Tuesday. The 45 works that the deadline had ance and trains ago registering a variations) February was com- | acts of cover vir- been extended from through a tunnel. He also has plaint pianists span I m LIl that too few Ytually the entire of 25 to March 10. Icalled Man- supplied an Invaluable enter- nowadays play any Schubert. Mozart’s creative life. The ager Ralph Black to find how for hi-fi-minded Columbia first, 6, was tainment aid has strategically K. written in 1762. things were going. “Speed the De- composer was years n hosts called come forward with evidence when the 6 getting from Hif'' parting Guest," a yet 547, “You entries \ now classic. that the cause Is not lost. old. and the last. K. ap- every Dnion, m p§* Fleisher, 1786, State in the Sometimes he also dabbles Leon one of the new peared in three years Ralph?” ¦ generation I asked. identiflably pianists before he died. in music or matter of and for "I haven’t got my briefcase related to It, such the rep- a time a pupil of the noted Cycles quartets, handy,” Black, as ofBeethoven said Mr. “but ertoire of the oildrum orches- Schubert exponent. Artur sonatas, and symphonies, of I think you can say that if tras now rending the night air Schnabel, has made a record Brahms chamber music, and there are a few States missing, of the Caribbean. But it is in devoted mostly to the posthu- m. keyboard young SB « even of Bach's music we have at least mu- more elemental areas that the mous towering B flat sonata. ’ exemplified by every region fIBBH as the “Clavier sicians from in mm • Cook talent is at its most in- Whether it Is youthful exu- country. trbung” are not rare, but an the Not dozens—- P^l imitable. and it has just berance that makes the music appreciation of the develop- hundreds of them. They want spawned another masterpiece. sound stimulating, play on every so or the ment of Mozart is more dif- to concertos in- Its title, not to be taken too infrequency perform- acquire. strument you of its ficult to The two can name—- literally, is “The Compleat In ance, I am not certain, but If categories of his music which piano, fiddle, horn, oboe, flute, iJp Fidelytie.” this record bassoon, harp, clarinet, is an accurate are often played as a cycle—- cello—- index of the future no harm quintets even organ, The contents of “The Com- the viola and the believe it or not.” pleat” jet will be done in starting piano “What’s wrong with an or- Include the sound of this trios show Mozart planes, an 1893 two-cylinder particular pianist on record- largely as com- gan?” I asked, simulating af- the mature gas engine, ex- makin B so early. (His precise poser at slight firecrackers of his late years, while front the to that a age is the one thing great relays. ploding in Mexico, 50-odd- Columbia 1 the forms in which he wrote box of wires and year-old does not tell about him.) “Well, nothing, really.” was cylinder-recording of all his life have so many in- Sousa’s “The Thunderer” and One might wish the handful examples even a the reply, “but we’re primarily BACKHAUS IN BEETHOVEN—WiIheIm Backhaus, perhaps the senior master dividual that a reverent ditty called “He of little dance pieces encoring performer who will essay all Interested in people who can pianist now before the public, who will be heard in an all-Beethoven program Sunday” the sonata might have piano go making playing Goes to Church on been the Beethoven sonatas, on a career which wiU include the Diabelli Variations next Sunday in Constitution Hall. sung by a Billy supplemented, for solos with symphonies. Peo- man named there are to name a single favorite Murray, an Infant crying, and some wasted grooves. But cycle, to ple like Seymour Lipkin and ' ' will usually hesitate IN Smith sings the rousing rock : an alleged 10,000 hens and maybe Flelsher-Columbia are < engage in so large an under- Theodore Lettvin. TOPS POPS' and roll “Tutti-Frutti.” (MGM | waking up at holding out for another whole That's what Ilike about three roosters taking. or- K-12165.) : 5.22 o’clock one morning In record. DANCING CHORISTER— chestra managers. They talk * May Chronology excellent Ansonia, There are also ** * dance are all the Follow up involving high Dick Duane—Two i N. H. Song and a contest sides, as Dick's powerful voice I three fine New York Central PLUS BRAHMS same to the Don Cossacks, j, Dirksen and Lywen will per- school music students, and Red Satellite Nations essays engines delight any immediately run two ballads in “ToMake steam to The line from Schubert to who perform In Constitution |Torm the sonatas with violin their minds Prelude." fan, horribly piano and violin and to people like Lipkin and Lett- a Mistake” and "Blue rail and some Schnabel to the present Is Hall this afternoon. •|and (ABC-Paramount 45-9677.' distorted organ music to pun- drawn directly Sharpsichord, and are at present vin. They are proud of their even more on Encouraging Jazz Aldemara Romero-—Romero’s salon ; Ish, presumably, hl-fl ad- a new Epic recording, advantages all which considering the and restraint in not mentioning ! orchestra has a top-notch LP of au- in feasibility playing thentic Venezuelan music that easily i diets for their sins. the four-hand F minor fantasy of the works , Rubinstein and Gieseking. | By 808 WILLIAMS ! of the local contemporary Pol- rhy- captures the ear. There are six The piece de resistance is on is performed by two other in chronological order. None The runners-up in the Na- Russia, apparently realizing j ish composers, as well as thms represented In the dozen tunes: I joropo. valse. valse-Jorppo, cancion, side two, though. It consists Schnabels, Helen (daughter- of the other three great tional Symphony pens merengue. 1 Hr contest are impossible to works from the of such and polo. Highlights In this entirely of wind. in-law) Viennese composers, that it’s buck the as George delightful aet are "Geranlo,” "Vene- and Karl Ulrich (son). Beetho- to be winnowed out in five or famous Americans zuelan Fiesta.” El Carl-Carl.” "Brisas *# * * ven, Haydn or Schubert, wrote six regions in i current jazz trend, has decided and Harry James. del Zulla.” and the lovely Tu Partlda." Recent events at the Library the United Gershwin (RCA Victor LPM-1203.) MARCHLESS BAND many violin sonatas, and not States and brought on to that “if you can’t beat them, ** * * of Congress notwithstanding, join them,” Stan Kenton—"Baa-Too-Kee” Is a A handsome picture of red- duo-piano playing danger- even the best of them—those Washington to play with the and therefore has JUST RELEASED fine Instrumental with a Latin In- is by changed policy permit fluence: however, the reverse side of caped English cavalrymen on ously being art, Beethoven—are comparable symphony Young Amer- its to Barney j , close to a dead in the Kessel A fabulous "Winter in Madrid" is the real win- a Mercury Is in quality to that composer’s ica Series this spring in Con- and encourage "progressive” ner. It has a haunting melody, plus a new recording which makes this sort of en- new LP by this outstanding by : music in its satellite countries. rnperb vocal Ann Richards. (Capitol only vaguely symbolic of the terprise a welcome one. contemporary pieces for cello stitution Hall. The final win- I guitarist, with fine support by F-2246.) Karl Garry contents. My assumption, Ulrich Schnabel, who has Wjfp, or for piano alone. ner will be chosen from the The latest music group to be as Georgie Auld, Moore—A clever Idea for an on had jE, mm such men Bill LP.