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Carnegie Hall was packed, and as Heifetz stepped onto the stage with the light precision that is the Heifetz way of doing things, the audience rose in tribute. Piatigorsky followed, carrying his Stradivarius cello with a giant's jauntiness, as though he were about to put it under his...
The peak of Mehta's career to date was his selection as lead-off conductor at Salzburg, where he has appeared for three straight years. With feet planted firmly apart, lithe, suavely handsome Mehta led the Berlin Philharmonic with driving energy through a varied program of works by Stravinsky...
The only Indian conductor who has ever won international fame, Mehta allows that he was "brainwashed with classical music from the cradle." Urged on by his father, former conductor of the Bombay Symphony Orchestra and now a violinist with Philadelphia's Curtis String Quartet, he began studying the violin...
MOZART: CONCERTO NO. 17 (RCA Victor). Artur Rubinstein has made long series of Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin recordings, but only in his mid-70s is he turning to Mozart, who did not live long enough to grow old. The best modern Mozart interpretation demands more crispness, but Rubinstein's...
Just the Answer. Victor, which hauled out its venerable old Victrola label to kick off its new line, offers a rich lode of glittering bargains ($2.50 for each mono LP, $3 for stereo). Among them: Puccini's Tosca with Soprano Zinka Milanov; Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" with Pierre Monteux...