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01 01 01 01 01 01 MUSIC MATTERS Claremont Quartet Plays on Coleman Series Today By Roy Copperud the tena Playhouse. It Quartet, will replace whose HE CLAREMONT Quartet celled American due to illness. had to be canof New York, remembered In tribute to the Smetana for ils successful debut on the Quartet, it will play the Quartet Coleman series last year, will by Bohuslay Martinu of play today at 3:30 in the Pasa- and also WILSON AND HIGBEE PRESENTFor Your Entertainment Pleasure At the Pasadena Civic Aduitorium STAN MIDGLEY IN PERSON Presenting His Color-Film "YELLOWSTONE, TETONS AND GLACIER" Hilarity a b'rycle spectacular besely at every tarn. Cooke City -Red Lodge Highway. Bearioceh Plateau wining region.

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Beethoven Queriet in Minor. Op. 95, the Haydn Quartet 1r1 Opus 77, No. 2, and sayarate quartet movement written Schubert. 'The next Colemon concerl will teuture the Now York Pro Musica on Feb.

25. THE INTERNATIONALLY (amous stars Nina Novak, George Zoritch, Helene Trai. line, Juan Giuliano, Eugene Collins, and Nina Vyroubava will appear with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Feb. 13, in the Pasadenn Civic Audi. torium.

The company includes 75 dancers and musicians under the direction of Sergei ham, 11 travels' with lis 0411 scenery and lighting equip. ment, transported in two gigantic trailer trucks, The program will consist of excerpts from "Giselle." "Pas de Deux," and "Scheherazade." A PROGRAM emilded "Vien. na on Parade." featuring the world renowned Deutschmetster Band under the direction of Capt. Julius atid including performances singers, ballet dancers, and instrumental soloists and ensembles, will he presented alt 8:30 Feb. 18 in San Gabriel Mission Playhouse under sponsorship of the San Gabriel Valley Philharmonic Artists Association.

The show has been hailed as an authentic reflection of the charm and gaiety for which Vienna beloved. Waltzes, marches, and operetta music associated with the city will be played in profusion. DR. CHIARLES C. Hirt, professor of music at the Univer.

sity of Southern California, wil be the speaker: at the Symphony Previews at 11:15 Friday in the Biltmore Hotel. He will discuss the program to be performed that afternoon In the Philharmonic Auditorium by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the direction of Sir John Barbirolli, with David Frisina, concertmaster, as violin soloist. The program will consist Haydn's Symphony No. 98, Dvorak's Symphony No. 4, and the Prokofief Violin Concerto.

The previcw lectures, sponsored by. the Junior Philharmonic Committee and the Junior League of Los Angeles, are free and open to the public. JOSEPHINE LOMBARDO of San Gabriel will play the title role in a performance of "Madame Butterfly" by the West Coast Opera Company at 8:15 Fridoy 'and Saturday eve. nings in -the Mira Costa Auditoriun, Manhattan Beach. TIE 60-VOICE Choir of the West from P'acifie Lutheran University, Tucoma, will appear in concert at 7:45 p.m.

Saturday in the ETiN Avenue Grace Lutheran Church Pasadena, under the direction of Gunnar J. Malmin. The choir is on a tour of 20 cities in California, Oregon, 'and Washinglon, The program will Include church music classics, arrange. Nie Walkuere: Act -111, tho 'Valkyrles; and -Isoble, Prelude to Act Das Rholagold, flic Into Vrillualla: Tannhansor, 'Overture mull Vent- ushers Mugle. RCA 'Victor L.16-2555, This record is as approprinicly named 'as any 1 have ever listened to, and so Tar as records sound is concerned it is magnificent.

Stokowski has always been prone to seck out means- elec. r'onic OU' otherwise that would further the impact of his own individual interpretation of Wagner's or, for that matter, any other music. The not result of this readiness to innovale, combined with the conductor's personul approach to some music, has occasionally led to instances of rather overblown interpretations and dis1orted sound. Nevertheless, Stokowski and his early Philadelphia Symphony recordings did much to awaken interest in scrious music in this coun. try.

To that extenl we owe him and RCA a great debt. This recording is notable in that it combines much of the old with some of the -of the new. Stokowski's approach to music may have mellowed but il remains individualistic. There are times when you've never heard Stokowski 50 good; occasionally you've never Wagner so good! But always, one thing is certaln: RCA Victor's collaboralion Is the This record would 'excel a demonstration record. -Jack.

Reuter. BACE: Minor MaRs. Saramac Endich Adele Addison, sopranos; contralto; Walker, Ara Berbe rian, bass; and the Robert Chorale and Orchestra conducted by Shaw. RCA VICTOR A new recording of what some consider the greatest piece of music ever written is always welcome, even when the program notes by Philip L. Miller take pains to explain that the mass was not thought of as a single work by its creator, that he wrote different sections nt it at different limes, and that he borrowed much from carlier cantatas in writing it.

At any rate, it stands alone among all music, and Afr. Shaw's forces do it full. Justice, The Minor .15 gl. gantic, but It is here. performed 20.

instrumentalists, A chorus of 33, and the solo quintet. Many the. chorus the orchestra are soloists their own rights, and their talents shine through hind. somely because of the small forces, The complexities of the Itself were never 'better served. Miss Addison caslly the af the soloists, bul the other four also bring honor upon themselves, The sound is sllghly less than ideal, but not enough so to provent the impression that all participants are not only in top form but -also joying themselves fremend.

ously. And who wouldn't enJoy himself, given such music to perform? -Blain Hightower PIANO CONCER. TO, Artur Rubinstein, with orchestra conducted by Alfred Wallenstoln, and 'Encore Favorites. RCA Victor Red Seal LAY 2566. Rubinstean calls this, his fourth recording of the Grieg Concerto, the most nearly perfect he has made.

Perhaps there remains little In- the critic's poor to or detract, A colicerto, matching a sin. gle instrument against the full of a seem to a musical mismatch, is not the case, Most of great composers also piano vir. tuosos who were not to cast the piano minor In any event, the forceful personality of Rubinstein doesn't come out secondbest in any match with an.orcheatra. Tf any fault can found. with it is that.

'he sometimes succecds too well, giving the listener the impression he is leading the The Grieg Concerto, like of T.s Tschaikowsky, abounds with melody, giving it broadest lIstener appeal. Rubinstein plays the 'allegro movements with typical and the adagio movement with sensitivity befitting "the world's last civilized man," as ho has been called. Encore favorites complete the secondl side of the record. These ale familiar although the titles may not be: Schumann's "Romance in Sharp," Villa-Lobos' "Polichinelle," Liszt's "Valse Oublice No. 1," Prokofieff's "March" from "Love for 'Three Oranges" And F'alla's "Ritual Dance." --Jim Marugg.

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