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TWENTY-NINI THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1954 or cold, then sprinkle each bowl or cup of the soup with minced chives. Good! Add a dash of curry powder to a cream of chicken soup you are planning to serve either hot World of music Cole Porter has way with words that is often overlooked in mood of music Rent less than taxes Unique 99-year leasing arrangement of Pensacola Beach on Floridas Santa Rosa Island gives seashore residents home sites for less annual rental than taxes on comparable beach sites. tune by Ray Anthony limits its lyrics to the catch phrase itself. With it is a similar instrumental Skokiann, whose authors, the label says, are Shona-Zezuru. (Capitol.) (c).

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LEE JEWELERS, 320 N. 20th St. sume Metropolitan activity during the Fall. Speaking of tenors, Jan Peerce is spending his Summer studying Faust, which he will sing for the first time at the Met next season. At an age when many singers of his persuasion are looking for lower and lighter roles, Peerce continues to look onward and upward.

Recent visitors to Italy report that Arturo Toscanini is enjoying very good health, but settling perceptibly into the kind of aged inactivity he so long defied. Efrem Kurtz, who once considered a sequence of Les Sylphides, Scheherezade and Gaite Pa-risienne a good evenings work with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, will have a different sort of occupation on Oct. 9, when he conducts the Verdi Requiem in Londons Albert Hall. What makes it notable is that the solo quartet will include Beniamino Gigli, Ebe Stignani and Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, also the native Joan Hammond as soprano. Wonder whose tempo theyll use in the Ingemisco Gigli's or Kurtzs? Record roundup CLASSICAL SACRED GERMAN SONGS (Bach, An unusual collec- tjon of Bach and pre-Bach ma-erial by Kirsten Flagstad, with Gerald Moore at the piano.

Good sound. (HMV.) PAGANINI VARIATIONS (Brahms). Highly competent performance by Charles Rosen, one of the most promising of younger American pianists. Surprisingly' mature musically, as well as tonally powerful. (London.) CONCERTINO (Santorsola).

Luise Walker, who plays this work for guitar and orchestra, is an unfamiliar artist of considerable ability. The work of Santorsola, a Brazilian of Italian heritage, is well worth knowing. Fine sound. (Epic.) MUSIC FOR EGMONT (Beethoven). In addition to the familiar overture, well conducted by Hermann Scherchen, the disk offers all the incidental music for Goethes play, with Magda Laszlo as vocalist and Fred Liewehr doing the dramatic recitation.

(Westminster.) POPULAR SONGS IN A MELLOW MOOD. A full dozen great songs done in the Ella Fitzgerald manner with Ellis Larkins at the piano. The swing version of People Will Say Were in Love seems exeessive, but she does absorbing things with Stardust, You Leave Me Breathless, Please Be Kind, etc. (Decca.) THE NEARNESS OF YOU. Another exceptional collection of Glenn Miller revivals, including the title song.

April Played the Fiddle, "Moonlight Becomes You, Blue Rain, etc. Ray Eberle does most of the vocalizing, and the sound is surprisingly good. (RCA Victor.) MUSIC OF JELLY ROLL MORTON." Whether or not Morton's name is known to today's public, such enduring tunes as Jelly Roll Blues, Milenberg Joys, The Pearls and Shoe Shiners Drag are very much a part of the jazz repertory. Turk Murphy and Wally Rose do the honors capably. SAY HEY.

Ostensibly a tribute to the catch phrase of Ballplayer Willie Mays, this jumpy BY IRVING KOLODIN, music editor, The Saturday Review Every so often something hoppens that makes one realize what makes a gifted individual outstanding in his sphere of activity. Such as the publication just now of a book titled "103 Lyrics of Cole Porter," selected by a young enthusiast named Fred Lounsberry and published by Random House. Who would want to read, let alone reread, the effort of any other composer-lyricist? You could cull a dozen, perhaps, from the works of Irving Berlin and Frank Loesser, who also roll their own, but no such sparkling collection as this. The literate, movable-brow quality of Porter's word-witching is a durable fact of popular music, but one so easy to become accustomed to that only an anthology such as this shows how consistent he has been these many years. Particularly when one stumbles here and there on phrases in some of the less-familiar songs that illuminate the surroundings, so unexpected and so deft are they.

As an instance. I cite At Long Last Love, from a show' of 1938 called You Never Know. Its motif is stated in the opening I'm so in love, and though it gives me joy intense, I can't decipher if I'm a lifer, or if its just a first offense. Posing the question, Porter races through a series of contrasts (Is it an earthquake or simply a shock? Is it the good turtle soup or merely the to Is it for all time or simply a lark? Is it Granada I see or only Asburv Park? Perhaps those who know Granada would relish this even more, but I have seen Asbury Park, and the sublime-ridiculous comparison could hardly be greater. Eugene Ormandy, will be host to another group of aspiring conductors otf community orchestras in a five-day workshop beginning on Oct.

4. Cooperating with the American Symphony Orchestra League for the third time, the orchestra and its famous conductor will extend its courtesies of time and talent to 30 conductors from 14 states and Canada. Among them is This is The new, faster, easier HOME PERMANENT, so quick RICHARD HUDNUT With the lanolized waving lotion that takes in only 10 minutes! 55 YEARS SATISFIED SERVICE RUGS SPARKLING CLEAN Miss Fanny A. Hassler of the Students Symphony of Chicago, who is about the first of her sex to shake a stick, either in anger or praise, at this very manly organization. The music beat JUSSI BJOERL1NG.

who had a hard time with a bad throat during his American visit last of the kind to resume its seasonal activity when it gave a Saturday matinee on Aug. 28. This was one in a series of programs devoted to works commissioned by the orchestra through a grant of $400,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation. Included on this ice-breaker in the warm atmosphere of late August as a new symphony for strings by Vincent Persichetti. Forthcoming programs include such novelties as Boris Blach-er's Study in Pianissimo and Ulysses Kay's Serenade for Orchestra.

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Take Its Delovely. Nobody with a radio has to be told that it chimes brightly with the refrain It's delightful, its delicious. it's delovely! and Porter's subtle, and not-so-subtle. variations. However, most lyric writers would have settled for the preceding part, which goes: I feel a sudden urge to sing.

The kind of ditty that invokes the Spring. So control your desire to curse, while I crucify the verse. This verse I've started seems to me. The tin-pantithesis of melody. So to spare you all the pain.

I'll skip the darned thing and sing the refrain Thq test of Porters quality, it seems to me. comes in those pieces for which one cannot readily recall the tunes. On a rare occasion the words seem barren without the proper musical support, but this is merely to remind us how often and with what skill Porter has made a true marriage of words and music. The songs are grouped in categories devised by Lounsberry, with each kind prefaced by a commentary on the devices or patterns Porter has developed. These are all well-meaning and sometimes stimulating.

but. more often, rather pretentiously-phrased for the subject matter. However. Louns-berry's enthusiasm is what produced this book, and that is all to the good. Helping hand THE SOLIDARITY of the musical community, when put to the test, was demonstrated lately when the extensive plant of Boosey and Hawkes, world-famous publishers, was destroyed by a fire at Oceanside, N.

Y. Competitors from far and near offered printing facilities. storage space and office forces to make up the loss suffered by the English publishers. Fortunately, the enormous stock of rental 'material (orchestral parts and operatic scores' was housed in an area least affected by the four-hour blaze, and commitments can be handled. Opera in Chicago MARIA CALLAS.

Brooklyn-born soprano who has made a considerable impression in the world of European operatic art. is in for a busy schedule with the Lyric Theater when it launches its revival of opera in Chicago Nov. 1. In addition to partisipating in the season-opening Norma (with Giulietta Simionato, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni and Mirto Picchi), she will be heard in several performances each of Traviata and Lucia (both of which she has recorded in full). Among the other foreign notables taking part in 16 performances are Gieuseppe di Stefano, Tito Gobbi and Giacin-to Prandelli while Eleanor Steber will sing her first Tosca.

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