SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1948 EAR T'HEM AGAIN: Record Shops Stock Up' On Discs of Performers THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE By AL BLUMROSEN The local record shops are tting ready for the fall concerts id by the time Eileen Farrell) eps up to sing the first notes the series, students will be able get recordings by almost all of te stars. "very University musical event Aurzon Begins ['our Planned ef ore War Clifford Curzon's war-postponed incert tour of America will fi- lly become a reality this fall. The English pianist will appear part of the Choral Union Series re on Nov. 27. HIGHLY ACCLAIMED in his itial appearance in this country, arzon had to forego a previously anned tour in 1940 because of te war. His debut had been at wn Hall in 1939. Curzon made his "second debut" Carnegie Hall last fall with the ew York Philharmonic - Sym- ony under Dimitri Mitropoulous. ad the success of this earned m the present tourtwhich will climaxed when he appears as loist in the "Emperor" Concerto ith the New York Philharmonic- imphony, this time under the di- ction of Bruno Walter. Born in London in 1907, Curzon gan his musical career at five, aying the violin. But he switched the piano permanently at the ~e of six. "Not only because it as my instrument," he says, "but so because you can be alone ith a piano." STUDYING IN BERLIN under rtur Schnabel, he met his wife, icille Wallace, who is now well- 1own as a brilliant harpsichord- . They play together consid-) ably and have given historical citals, using instruments be- nning with Elizabethan virginals id harpsichords and ending with Le modern concert grand. Curzon won international ac- aim when he toured all of Eu- pe, appearing with the leading chestras of the continent. brings an increased demand for recordings by the artists that ap- pear here," according to G. Mau- erhoff, music store operator. RECORDS BY Eileen Farrell now available include an album of Five Wagnerian Songs, and various Irish songs. The Cleveland Orchestra, sec- ond in the concert series, has re- corded Dvorak's 1st and Beetho- ven's 4th, among others, and Bor- odin's 2nd Symphony and the Qhausson Symphony are on the shelves by the Chicago Symphony. Ezio Pinza has recorded Boris Goudonov as well as singles from operas by Verdi and Mozart. VIOLIN PIECES BY Ginette Neveu include the Suk and a few single disks, while Nathan Mil- stein has recorded Tchaikovski's Bruch concerto, Sarasate's Danses Espanol and pieces by Mendels- sohn. Chopin's piano music, Liszt's Sonata and Brahm's B flat Con- certo played by Vladimir Horo- witz are now on the shelves. "Name almost any violin con- certo and Heifitz has recorded it," one clerk said. Among the albums now on sale are concertos by Brahms, Beethoven and Tchai- kovski. * * * MARIAN ANDERSON has re- corded Arias by Bach and Brahm's Alto Rhapsody besides her spir- ituals. Stravinsky's "Song of the Nightingale" and Greig's Peer Gint Suite No. 1 have been waxed by the Cincinnati Symphony-but records with Thor. Johnson con- ducting are not available. Rudolph Serkin's piano has re- corded Beethoven's Sonatas and concertos, as well as Brahm'sd1st in D minor. The Indianapolis Symphony has recorded Glazounoff's Middle Ages Suite, the Peer Gint Suite No. 2 by Greig and several Greek sym- phonic dances. 9 * *- * THE FRENCH NATIONAL.Or- chestra, which will appear at dIill Auditorium on October 25 is the only organization whose works cannot be found at the local, rec- ord emporiums. "As the series progresses we usually will order other works by the artists who appear," Robert W. Miller of another music shop said. BOSTON SYMPHONY-Under the direction of S erge Koussevitzky, the Boston Symphony will ap- pear here Dec. 6 in the Choral Union Series. This will mark the orchestra's eighteenth consecutive annual visit to An Arbor. 20TH CONCERT SERIES: Horowitz's Skill Excites Public Imagination Few men have ever struck a age of six, his parents, believing more responsive chord in the that no child should sacrifice his heart of musical America than childhood for a musical career, Vladimir Horowitz, the brilliant concentrated more on creating an pianist who will be soloist in the appreciation for fine music than eighth in the regular series of on developing a child prodigy. concerts on Friday, February 11. Because of this careful early Now in his 20th concert season training Horowitz developed the in the United States, the 44 year sense of perfection and deftness old Russian born artist has dem- of touch which has always sep- onstrated such a striking keyboard arated him from the many "me- personality that the name Horo- chanical" pianists in today's pro- witz on any concert program or fessional ranks. Where many art- record excites laymen and pro- ists play 60 to 80 concerts a sea- fessional musicians alike, son, Horowitz always restricts Horowitz's career is a tribute himself to 40 concerts to be sure to an honest and well developed each retains the musical vitality love for music. Although he which has made him famous. showed unusual promise at the Making his debut at the age of 16, Horowitz rapidly gained recognition first in his native Rus- sia, later all over Europe, and in 1928 he first bowed in the United States with the New York Phil- harmonic. From this concert on, Horowitz was an immediate suc- cess in this coustry and by con- sistently masterful performances he has in the last 20 years risen to a very select hierarchy of con- cert musicians. Horowitz believes that music is the greatest emotional release. "And for the ultimate in personal pleasure," he adds, "A, man who has such companions as Schu- mann, Chopin and Liszt can never be lonely." Indianapolis' Orchestra To Play March 13 The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, which will present a concert at Hill Auditorium Sun- day, March 13, has earned a name for itself in the musical world of America since its obscure be- ginnings in 1930. During that dark year of the depression an Indianapolis violin teacher, Ferdinand Schaefer, called together the unemployed musicians of his city and organ- ized a non-profit symphony or- chestra. The organization was semi-professional and strictly co- operative. IT WASNOT until 1937, how- ever, when Fabien Sevitzky took over the leadership and reorgan- ized the orchestra on a profes- sional basis that the organization became a member of the group of major symphony orchestras. From November of that year until now, the history of the In- dianapolis Symphony Orchestra is practically synonymous with the biography of this famed musician. Last season (1946-1947), ten years later, 83 concerts were played during the 21-week series in 31 cities. This amazing rise to fame was largely the result of the excellent leadership of Mr. Se- vitzky. THIS INTERNATIONALLY fa- mous musician combines impec- cable musical taste with brilliant interpretive powers and a winning personality to make himself one of the greatest living conductors. These same qualities have been transmitted to the orchestra he conducts until he and his musi- cians seem to be an entity rather than two units. "America gave me the thing I most wanted," he says. "It is the chance to work and earn my living by music. I will always give my best to America." Vladimir Likes Leo Climbing a mountain and curl- ing up with a copy of Tolstoi or Dostoevski are pianist Vladimir Horowitz's ideas of relaxation. Like most artists, Mr. Horowitz has his talisman-a portrait of Franz Liszt given to him by a pupil of the old master. The por- trait occupies a place of honor on Horowitz's dressing table when- ever he is on tour. A man of sim- ple tastes, Horowitz neither drinks nor dances. Few violinists in the last half century have aroused the excite- ment among critics in New York and Boston that Ginette Neveu, the youthful Parisian-born virtu- oso, caused last year. Appearing with the Boston Sym- phony and the New York Philhar- monic, Miss Neveu, who will ap- pear at the seventh concert in FEMALE VIOLINIST: Ginette Neveu Becomes Toast Of New York Music Critics Brahms Gives ViolinistHelp Emil Heerman, who will soon be heard with the Cincinnati Orches- tra, was encouraged at the age of eleven in his studies of the violin by no less a personage than the mighty Johannes Brahms. When Stokowski engaged his father, Hugo Heerman as con- certmaster of the Cincinnati or- chestra, he was made assistant concertmaster, and finally, when his father returned to Europe in 1910, he succeeded to his father's position. After 36 distinguished years, he has retired to the second chair in favor of his assistant, Sigmund Effron. A great teacher, he has been professor of violin since 1915. His hobbies are walking and read- ing, and his interests many and varied. U Choral Union Stars Send Dr. Sink Inscribed Photos Dr. Charles A. Sink always has an office full of old friends. They aren't there in person, it's true. But the president of the Univerity Musical Society has autographed pictures of hundreds of acquaintances, most of them famous in the world of music. They line the walls of his quarters in the Burton Carillon Tower. Galli-Curci, Sergei Rachmani- noff, Ignace Paderewski, Lily Pons, Eugene Ormandy, are all there. They are just a few of the many artists who have come to Ann Arbor for Choral Union Con- certs in the past. And it would seem that Dr. Sink has pictures of them all. His large collection got its start back in 1919. That was the year when Enrico Caruso sang before an Ann Arbor audience. Caruso was so pleased with his reception that he sent Dr. Sink an inscribed picture when he re- turned to New York. Dr. Sink said that concert art- ists have many good things to say about their Universitiy audiences. "They're among the most dis- criminating and appreciative in the country," for one thing. Students mind their etiquette pretty well too, he said. The mu- sicians and singers like the way they get to their seats on time and pay attention to what's hap- pening on stage. Artists do gripe about some- thing peculiar to Ann Arbor Dr. Sink remarked. They can't stand knitters in the audience. GINETTE NEVEU ... to play here Hill Is Perfect Acoustically The top-notch artists scheduled for appearances here in the Choral Union and Extra Series Concert will display their talents in Hill Auditorium, one of the most acoustically perfect halls in Amer- ica. The paroboloid-shaped audito- rium was built in 1913, and soon became a favorite withmusicians because of its fine sound reflec- tion. The late pianist Ignace Pad- erewski went so far as to describe the hall as "the finest auditorium in the world." The gigantic building was fi- nanced by Arthur Hill. alumnus and regent of the University, and, was dedicated in the early summer' of 1913, although the first per- formance of the May Festival took place one month beforehand. Similar in shape to a head- light, the architecture of the au- ditorium allows direct and indi- rect sound waves to reach the ears of a 5,000 person capacity audi- ence. the regular series on Saturday, Jan. 8, played Brahms in a man- ner that electrified her audience. SAID OLIN DOWNS'of the New York Times, "It has been many seasons since the writer heard. such a compelling performance of the Brahms Concerto, one in which youthful vigor and emotion went hand in hand with the au- thority and control of a master." "Time" reported that "one wo- man in the audience clapped so hard she lost the diamond out of her ring" and "the violinists of the Philharmonic couldn't get backstage fast enough to congrat- ulate the soloist." Other reviews called her "exciting" and the Bos- ton Post declared: "This was a performance that you could talk about for years to come and by whibh you might measure all subsequent ones." For Miss Neveu her East Coast triumph climaxed 'a brilliant se- ries of successes begun with her performance at the age of seven of the Mendelssohn Concerto at the Concerts Colone in her native Paris. Her career really began when she was fifteen and won the Wieniawaki Grand Prix over 85 other contestants in the Interna- tional Competition in Warsaw. ** * MISS NEVEU SOON became much in demand both in Europe and North America and prior to the outbreak of the war had play- ed in 1101different cities. In the summer of 1947 before coming to the United States she toured Lat- in America and later Australia and New Zeland. One critic ob- served that "her concert schedule reads like a U.N. roll call." Paris-born Ginette confesses that though she never saw the New World until she had grown up, her childhood hero in fiction was Geronimo, the Apache Indian chief, but her real life hero was Fritz Kreisler. Heermann Made Debut With Richard Strauss Walter Heermann, principal 'cello-player of the Cincinnati Or- chestra, which will appear as part of the Choral Union Concert Se- ries, made his debut at a concert given jointly with his father, Hugo Herrmann and Richard Strauss. He taught at Interlochen for seven summers and at the Wis- consin Music Clinic for three. s 1~ i Third Annual SH( RT EXTRA SE RIES 1948-1949 MARIAN ANDERSON, Contralto. . . . . . CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Thor Johr S.. . .Tkursday, October14 nson, Conductor . . . . . . Monday, November 15 ... . . . . . Friday, December 3 . . . . . . . . .Saturday, February19 RUDOLF SERKIN, Pianist . HEIFETZ, Violinist . .: 0 w 0 0 O " " .r' 0 "0 5 0 INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Fabien Sevitzky, Conductor . 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