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SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1952 2

Record Reviow—

Tosca’s Mel

In a New Version

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“TOSCA,"” by Puccini, is one of the most dramatic, | exciting ‘and stirringly melodious of all grand operas. It|

is a top favorite in the repertory of opera houses all over

the world. |

So it will be good news to the legion of opera lovers in these parts (that there is such is proven| ‘by. listenership surveys of Met| Opera broadcasts) to learn RCA | Victor "chose “Tosca” for the| newest reelase in their series of completé grand operas on longplaver's speed, ) | The albums have just become available, one consisting of nine 45-rpmy gold seal discs (WCT-82), and: the other (LCT-6004) containing two of the 12-inch 3314 rpm_gold seal records. The recording is from RCA Victor's “Treasury of Immortal Performances,” and was made in Italy, at the Royal Opera House! in Rome. The orchestra of that| institution is superlatively- good in the accompaniment it provides! on these records, and the chorus! does a‘'most creditable job, too. | Beniamino Gigli, world-famous Met tenor of the last decade, is heard in the role of Cavaradossi,|

1013. It is, we think, one of the most pleasing and listenable of | all symphonies. We find it ®ard| to realize that ft was written during one of the most (atressing periods of Beethoven's life, when his deafness was daily,

growing worse, a’ serious love af-|3 fair had but recently been broken

off, and the political situation, in which he was always interested, had taken a bad turn, u »

= FPQ ON THE AIR is the title

commencement exercises {p. m. tomorrow in the Woodruff

31 General

Hospital Nurses

To Be Graduated

Thirty-one. senior nurses, including 13 from Indianapolis, will be graduated from General Hospital School of Nursing in at 4

Place Church. Dr. Walter R. Hand, pastor of the church, will speak on “Doors to the Future.” Mayor Alex Clark will greet the class.

Baptist

of.a new RCA Victor 12-inch LP record (IM-788E) by the famous First Piano Quartet. On the two| sides there are nine favorite plano works in four-piano ar-| rangements that make them} sound like no piano music you've| ever heard before. Included are Mozart's “Air with Variations” and “Turkish March,” Schu-| mann's “Traumerei” and “Traumeswirren,” Wagner's “Tristan

und Isolde: Leibestod,” Saint- |

a painter. The way he sings the|S8ens’ “The Swan” and “Danse, a tenor aria that everybody Macabre and - Rimsky - Korsa-| Knows, “Fijucevan le stelle” (“The | Koff s “Capriccio Espagnol

"” | ® » ” stars were shining”) in the last) QTRAUSS-DORATI'S “GRAD-| Sirmel—Carolyn Hogan Shelton.

act 13 just about “out of this|y ATION BALL" Ballet music is| world,” as they say today. Maria recorded by a fine orchestra we | Caniglia, soprano, is a great have not had an opportunity to| Tosca, and her famous plea in hear before, the Dallas Symphony | Act II, “Vissi d’arte” is something Orchestra, with Antal Dorati conextra special. Armando Borgloli, ducting. It's on Victor 12-inch! barjtone, ably takes care of theired geal LP record LM-1061.| role of Baron Scarpia, chief of “Graduation Ball,” with its spark-|

police, : ! {ling choreography by David Lich-

“Tosca” is frank melodrama. Its events take place at high| speed in" a super-heated atmos-| phere of blood, hate, jealousy and] revenge. = Scarpia is ‘stabbed.! Cavaradossi is shot. Tosca leaps| off the Jarapet. Excitement never, flags. Even though you can’t see! the #tage action when you play the. records, just read the story in ‘the libretto that comes with] the albums, listen to the music, and you'll get it. » o »

TO No. 2 ina C Minor (Op. 18) is on a new RCA Victor 12-inch red seal LP record (LM-1005). Artur

Rubenstein, pianist, ‘gives it" a| NBC Symphony have recorded Miss Helen Kaley is be new The NBC|this colorful tohe poem on RCA |traffic supervisor

great performance. | Symphony Orchestra, with Viadi~ mir Golschmann conducting, provides the accompanimént. The Second Concerto is to many the best loved of all Rachmaninoff's compositions. . 3 » = » BEETHOVEN'S SYMPHONY Nos/7 in ‘A is drawn from RCA Victor's “Treasury of Immortal Performances” to delight us again with the superb performance that Arturo Toscanini and the Philharmonic-Symphony Or-| chestra of New York give us on|

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ine, first performed in 1940, has come to rival in popularity thei earlier ballet successes based on | Johann Strauss melodies such as “The Blue Danube.”

2 ” ” . GROFE'S GRAND CANYON [Miss Jessie Kaufman, a Terre SUITE 18 a powerful tonal paint- Haufe junior at Indiana Univering of the Grand Canyon by a sity, was named today as winner Ferde(of this year's Wendell Grofe, who has made some of the|{Interfaith Scholarship. The most important and effective con-{scholarship is awarded annually tributions to American music in|to an IU student for a significant

modern native composer,

| this century; Phere ars five EH aan. racial and ‘re . ts, the hames of which de- n RACHMANINOFF 'GONCER- |geribe’ the nature of the music: liglous groups.

“Sunrise,” “Painted Desert,” “On| the Trail” “Sunset” and “Cloud-| burst.” Arturo Toscanini and the |

Victor 12-inch red seal LP record | LM-1004.

2 ” » TREASURY OF GRAND OPERA (Volume II) is a storehouse of operatic ri¢hes on one 12-inch RCA Victor red seal LP record, 'LM-1148. It brings us such varied items as Licia Albanese, soprano, singing “Mi Chiamano Mimi” from “La Boheme,” Leonard Warren, baritone, in “Brindisi” from “Otello,” Robert Merrill, baritone, in the Prologue from “Pagliaceil,” Erna Berger, soprano, in “Caro Nome,” and

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After the ex‘ercises, Miss Barbara Lovell, president of the Student Council, will be hostess for a reception for relatives and friends at the Nurses Residence.

Indianapolis gradutaes are:

Rheba Juanita Beard, Joan Hand Bern. hardt, Willa Finkton Brooks, Patricia Ann Hankins, Hazel Pauline Heidenreich. Mary Barney Hertig. ary Ann Hornaday, Mildred Alma Johnson, Jean Maxine Kersey. Beverly Ann May, Sandra Bly Shepard, Eileen Clark Soultz and leke Helen VanderBaan, Other graduates are: Anderson — Juanita Lou Bevelhimer, parbars Eileen Harris, Barbara Jean ve

Miss Lovell

ecatur—Evelyn Jane Drew. Gosport—Maxine Mae Guy. jawrenceburg-_Rarn Jean Green. organtown—Genevieve Walker Muncie—Evangeline Marie Brunoehler, North Salem--Mary Frances Nichols. Peru—Mary Eldonna Baber. Portland—Patricia Ann Minch, harpsville-——Dorothy Leap Barnett. heridan—Mary Jeanne Stahl. Summitville — Jacqueline Johanne Cunningham ashington—Belty Rae -Blandley - hicago, Ill.—-Yvonne Mary Miterko. ictoria. Tex.—Abble Anne Scott.

Terre Haute Student ° Wins Scholarship

Times State Service

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Off the Record—

They've Put Johnny wl

Into the Treasury

| By DONNA MIKELS . | JOHNNY HODGES, a guy whose music oozes through

his alto sax like honey squeezed from ‘a toothpaste tube, is

|essentially a musician's musician, i oF {

Perhaps it's because the experts best recognize the merit of his subtle shadings, -the .

striving for total effect rather| rhe Bigger the Figure,” backed than just loud, exhilarated note-'hy a sagebrush hit, “Boney| playing. Bones.” | But it takes no expert to ap- (Columbia reissues one of the |preciate “the gems RCA-Victor finest jazz disks ever out, Mildred

|has collected together in an al- Bailey's classic “Rockin’ Chair.” (bum of “Johnny Hodges and his The Hoagy Carmichael tune was |Alto_ Sax,” just released In its waxed in 1037 by Mildred with | | “Treasury of Immortal Perform-n er bandleader~husband Red! ances” series. Of course, the standout for his

longtime admirers

Norvo. Re-released in 1941, the i record has been unavailable until] e ! 1s "Passion {tg most recent reissue on the {Flower.” That's one record that| special Black Label. Second side! {a great many people, includinglis Mildred singing “Give Me | yours truly, have sought in vain Tim,” with a studio ‘group which in record Shops the past several includes Mitch Miller. {years, These other tunes are just names unless you're familiar with Hodges. But, like “Passion Flow-

MERCURY — You may have thought this could never happen | fe : _{again but it has—Ralph Marators ems sine, th. were uf (eT Orchestra” revives “The back in 1040-41 ; |Music Goes Round and Round.”| . Hie Next they’ll bring back "Three!

They're things "Squaty yp ittle Fishies.” Second side is

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Roo,” a Hodges original, with | some fine Jimmy Blanton bass; “Day Dream,” an amazing ex-! ample of Hodges warmth and | control; “Things Ain't What They | Used to Be,” with fine Ray Nance trumpet. “Going Out the Back Way,” with Harry Carney's baritone sax; “Good Queen Bess"| with a Cootie Williams growl]

found -out-the collection. —— Other new releases include: |

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Ral 8haw singing “I'm Yours." Sonny Howard and a vocal group sing "Silence and Tears,”| and Foolish Lover.” | Rusty Draper sings his own! composition “Devil of a Woman,” and backs it with “Bouncing on) the Bayou.” Here's a bouncing arrangement of “Saturday Rag,” with Bobby | 1 group doing the singing to Dick Hayman's pi J chestral backing, Second side

* 89 features Bobby singing “I'm Sor-| .DECCA—Peggy Lee can't be ry” topped or even matched. A me-| dium-fair song like “Be Any-|of “Limehouse Blues,” by Bobby

ent, ballad with her magic touch. Second side of this happy combination of Miss Lee with Gordon Jenkins is “Forgive Me.” The Four Aces who scored with “Perfidia,” do it again with “I'm Yours” and “I Understand.” The Andrews Sisters take a “Music Lesson.” The second side features the sister team on “Dreams Come Tumbling Down.” | Evelyn Knight sings = “Lone-| some and Blue.” | Carmen Cavallaro comes up with some pairing, “Two Minutes Waltz” and “Stars and Stripes] Forever.” ” ” » t COLUMBIA — Somebody ought | to give Columbia a public service award for its continued pressing of the not-too-commercial but very fine piano music of Erroll Garner. The newest one features a couple of wonderful standards,

The flip's- a tune by Leroy (Blue| Tango) Anderson, called “Plink, | (Plank, Plunk.” | A couple of recent Mercury releases are still dominating juke box play, Georgia Gibb’s “Kiss of Bue and Eddy Howard's “She ook." '

Johnnie Green's “Out of Nowhere” and “Music Maestro, Please.”

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