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Robert Kogan, Assistant Conductor and principal cellist of the orchestra, began the evening's concert with the third (1806) "Leonore" Overture. Mr. Kogan has the broad back, long forelocks, and stance proper to a conductor; he knows how to pivot gracefully from the heels. Unfortunately, faced with a cold orchestra, he did not succeed in making the violins play clearly and together; the transition passages with string accompaniment lacked co-ordination. Although at times he devoted a nice attention to the subtleties of dynamics, he failed to exploit any of the possible tensions of silence: in the quiet dialogue among...
Kreisler looked on Cellist Pablo Casals as "the greatest musician to draw a bow," and in his old age, he deplored the "fear of sentiment" among younger musicians. As for his own career: "I have achieved only a medium approach to my ideal in music," said Fritz Kreisler at 79. "I got only fairly near." Perhaps-but he got as close as any other mortal fiddler...
...quartets, this quartet shows the vigor, delightful humor, and insistence on making the instruments serve the music that characterizes Beethoven's later quartet writing. The liveliness of the work seemed to wake up the performers; they started with good, solid attacks and supplied plenty of dynamic ups and downs. Cellist Lawrence Hamilton's full tone and adequate technique supplied a foundation to the ensemble, and second violinist Gretchen Anner played her solo in the trio of the third movement accurately, if without inspiration. But the violist remained out of tune; her solos with the cellist were rather more contrapuntal than...
...that 'I have something to give you.' " The matchless possessor of that belief has been enjoying a semi-vacation from his public for the past six years, spending most of his time in his Beverly Hills home and engaging in occasional chamber-music sessions with his friends Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and Violinist William Primrose. Next week he will begin teaching master classes (no more than four students) at the University of Southern California. He will also do some recording this year and give a few concerts. But he will never again be a traveling soloist. Says Heifetz...
...better music, and that his octogenarian bow arm was as firm as ever. At concert's end, the audience arose in a standing ovation. The President gave Casals an abrazo and summoned Alice Longworth to the front of the room for a bow. She had heard the great cellist in his last White House performance, 57 years before, when he played for her President father Theodore Roosevelt...