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THE DEST On DEC00D- love lures Prima Donna to If. ffie Wax Vienna musical world even by friends. Feb. 6. It is a suite for violin, written in 1934 and shown to Joseph Szigeti while still- in manuscript.

The violinist will introduce it here at his Maggie Teyte will appear as soprano soloist with the Amer-ian International Singers at Town Hall, New York, on Jan. 26. It will be Miss Teyte's only New York concert appearance this season. The chorus is composed of 40 singers representing 22 nationalities and formerly was known as the American Inter-racial Some mementos of famous composers will be sold publicly in Haarlem, the Nether-lands, this month. Among them is a gray-blond lock of Beethoven's hair, once in the possession of his friend Alois Fuchs, whose extensive collection of manuscripts, portraits and mementos of famous composers was sold in Vienna in 1838.

Also for sale is the manu-script of a "canon" entitled "Es Muss Sein," composed by Beethoven in Vienna in December, 1819, on which his last quartet in sharp was based. Felix Mendelssohn Barth-oldy is represented by two letters (dated 1827 and 1816 respectively), both good examples of the artist's fine handwriting, and Robert Schumann by an invitation card, signed by himself. Chansons Parisiennes This new Columbia album makes it possible to have a vigrn ette of Paris life and song on your own jook box. Edith I iaf the dynamic French diseuse, sings eight numbers in the poignant style which has made her a toast of French and American night clubs. Most famous and recognizable number to the.

Yankee ear is "La Vie En Rose," which was popularized here under the title "You're Too Dangerous, Piaf, the daughter of an itinerant circus acrobat, was singing in the streets at the age of 15 and was heard by a Paris producer. He arranged an audition for her and four days later her career was launched. Lunceford Special When it came to ensemble punch and individual ability com bined, few jazz bands could equal the oganization of the late Jimmy Lunceford eight or nine years ago. Columbia has de lighted jazz music fans by issuing a Lunceford Special album with eight of his best numbers ranging from killer-diller stomps to novelties. In this set you'll find "Uptown Blues," Jimmy's later signature tune; "White Heat," one of the first hectic swing hits; "Well, All Right Then," a novelty.

"Baby Won't You Please Come Home" is included as is "Chopin's Prelude No. 7," in which the band turns to quiet shades of intonation. Vaughn Monroe Sings A fine collection of old favorites is packaged by RCA Victor in a new Vaughn Monroe album. His vocal styling is usual, and his followers will find this set a must for their, collection. The numbers: Begin the Beguine, Anniversary Song, The Moon Was Yellow, Something Sentimental, Oh Promise Because, The Whilfenpoof Song and Without a Song.

Mi C- I NEW YORK (UP) The United States is about to acquire by marriage the prima donna who would not go there lor money. She is Alice Ostrowsky, youngest, best looking, and rated among the most prom-ising of the current crop of the famed Vienna State Opera Company. During her two-year rise to popularity in Vienna's tough competition, the 29-year-old Hungarian born mezzo soprano has turned down every suggestion from her well wishers that she seek a career in the more lucrative United States. But now she is packing her bags. Her husband, whom she married in Vienna, is Major Charles Cawthon, Murfrees-boro, Tenn.

He has orders to report for duty early in January at the Presidio in San Francisteo. Faced with continuing her Vienna career or a separation, Miss Ostrowsky chose love and family, which includes a six-m old daughter. Americans, used to thinking of prima donnas in temperamental terms, will be meeting something new and different in Miss Ostrowsky. When crit-ics rave in praise, she blushes. -When an admirer tells her she was terrific as Carmen, she praises the acoustics of opera house.

But Vienna music critics are no professional backslappers. In a field noted for its cynics they have a reputation of being among the toughest in Europe. For her role of Santuzza, the feminine lead in Cavalier-ia Rusticana, Miss Ostrowsky was described in the next day's newspaper clippings as, "magnificent," a term not lightly kicked around in The Greeley (Colo.) Philhar-monic Orchestra, the oldest, symphony orchestra still playing in Colorado, expects its biggest season this year. The 70-piece orchestra directed by Henry Trustman Ginsburg, formerly with the Denver Symphony, was founded in 1911. For 30 years it barely made enough money to pay for its music.

But this year the orchestra expects to make what it did last year, more than 50 per cent of its funds by ticket sales. That is more than many larger orchestras clear. In the small college city of 15,000, the orchestra last year sold more than 1,000 season tickets. BY RON JAMS is only 20 but already has been hailed as one of America's greatest living pianists. Now in his third season of coast-to'-coast concert tours, the brilliant young musician made his concert debut at the age of nine and has the enviable record of being reengaged everywhere he has performed.

Bebop, Album of Modern Jazz We would hate to have to define bebop in words, but such" artists as Red Callendar, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Thompson, Benny Carter, Dodo Marmarosa and others have no trouble in giving musical definitions. RCA Victor has collected eight hot bebop numbers in a new album which gives a demonstration of the various bebop styles. A hit of the set is Dizzy's "Cubana Be" and "Cubana Bop," in which he gets exciting results by blending African and Cuban vocal and percussion effects with jazz orchestra sounds. The other From Dixieland to Bebop. Boppin' the Blues, Jumping for Jane, Half Step Down Please, Epistrophy and Royal Roost.

Art in eview An early work by Benjamin Britten, British composer, will have its first New Year performance at Carnegie Hall on 4 tm On the Popular Side BEST Without Louis Prima and orchestra with Louis in RCA Victor vocals; "Ia Santiago Chile," Xavior Cugat with vocals by Bob Graham, (Columbia; "Pappy's Little Brown Jug" and "Minnie the Mermaid," two Phil Harris novelties. (RCA Victor); "The Cuban Cabby," Desi Arnaz and his orchestra with vocals by Dcsi, (RCA Victor.) BEST INSTRUMENTAL "Everywhere," Woody Herman and hisorchestra. A slow, moody tempo with Bill Harris' troirn bone in the solo spotlight. (Columbia.) BEST RHYTHM "Believe Me Beloved," Bill Johnson and his Musical Notes. Gus Gordon and quartet in vocals.

'(RCA Victor.) "Get It While You Can," Jesse Stone and his orchestra with Jesse singing some humorous and at times spicy lyrics. (RCA Victor.) BEST POP CLASSIC "Drigo's Serenade," Henri Rene and his orchestra. This is a haunting, enchanting tune that you'll whistle for days. (RCA Victor.) BEST WESTERN "You Ain't Where You Come From Now," Rosalie Allen and the Black River Boys. This is plenty rustic.

Musical Notes SPIKE JONES, whose zany record, "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth," set a Christmas sales writes: "Incidentally this has started an entirely new career for George Rock, the vocalist. His new vocation is biting off bottle caps. George, who is also the trumpet player with the Slickers, has a wonderful lin movement. Nobody has seen anything like it since Lassie tried to chew a Tootsie Roll." CAPITOL RECORDS lisls its ten best selling records? Twelfth Street Rag, Pee Wee Hunt; One Has My Name, Jimmy Buttons and Bows, Dinning Sisters; Say Something Sweet to Your Sweetheart, Jo Stafford-Gordon MacRae; On a Slow Boat to China, Benny Goodman; I Love You So Much It Hurts, Jimmy Wakely; My Darling, My Darling, Stafford-Mac-Rae; Far Away Places, Margaret Whiting; A Little Bird Told Me, Blue Lu Barker, and So Tired, Kay Starr. If NEW YORK (UP) A few years before the discovery of America there lived in the Italian city of Florence a young artist of unusual talent.

Modern works of art were not easily sold those days. The artist needed money badly. To put an ond to his worries, he decided to get it in a somewhat roundabout way. He sculptured a beautiful sleeping cupid. A friend of his carried the statue to Rome, buried it there and, a few days later, it as an antique.

As such he sold it easily for the impressive sum of 200 crowns. But by that time the friend, too, had an idea. He delivered only 30 crowns to the sculptor and kept the rest for himself. The buyer, a Cardinal, later discovered that he had been taken In. But he could not get his money back.

The Romans laughed the matter off. The story might have rested, had not the barber of the Cardinal, an amateur painter himself approached the artist with the request to lend him a hand for the drawing of his latest picture. The artist obligingly did it. But he made such a wonderful drawing that when the Cardinal's barber showed the completed picture, it became obvious to anyone that beneath the amateurish painting there was the drawing of a great master. And now at last the devious efforts of the artist were honored with an order to execute an important sculpture.

,4 'vt ii ii il i irtriM nfc iiarmnnridrtn iirf vrriri ff ri i 'r rTn rm flr ftftrrrM TrtrifiT Tf rfmrmr vr'fiT'iVirri'rr-rf -rfwrrtfr AMU He died some 75 years venerated by his colleagues, his sponsors and the people as "the greatest painter, sculptor and architect hat ever lived." What was his name? Michelangelo The reason why the story is worth telling is that a sculpture of the artist has now been shipped on an American warship to Washington, where it will be put on view as a token of the friendship of the Italian people. And the artist. NEW HIT PARADER Eileen Wilson, Frank Sinatra's newest singing partner on NBC's "Your Hit Parade' has already begun a movie career of sorts. Heard but not seen, Eileen dubbed the sound track for Ava Gardner's songs in "The Hucksters" and "One Touch of Venus," on the screen. PAGE SIX SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 1949.