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In a career studded with firsts-she was the first Negro principal to sing at La Scala and the first Negro romantic lead at the Metropolitan Opera-dazzling Coloratura Mattiwilda Dobbs, 36, achieved another breakthrough: a desegregated concert in the Municipal Auditorium of her native Atlanta, Ga. Winning exultant plaudits...
Although he is a masterly performer of Beethoven and Brahms. Stern, 41. is the only topflight violinist who regularly plays the modern masters-Prokofiev, Hindemith, Bartok, Berg. Each performance is a marriage of technique with the temper of the music. "I don't want to be known only as...
A romantic of the old school, Oistrakh favors far slower tempos than most modern violinists, often imbues the music of Brahms, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky with the sort of kindling warmth that has reminded many a listener of Oistrakh's early idol, Fritz Kreisler. Whatever he plays-classics or occasional moderns...
NATHAN MILSTEIN, 57. another native of Odessa, was a student of famed Hungarian-born Leopold Auer at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where, recalls Milstein, the young Heifetz was already established as "the Prince of Wales of fiddlers." A post-conservatory concert success in Russia, Milstein left for Paris in 1925...
Married. Francoise Sagan, 26, prolific enfant terrible of French literature (Bonjour Tristesse, A Certain Smile, Aimez-vous Brahms); and Robert Westhoff, 31, lanky expatriate sculptor from Minneapolis who shares Sagan's addiction to fast sports cars (she spent five months recuperating after a 1957 crack-up); she for the...