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...world last week to celebrate her 70 birthday. At the split-level chalet of Conductor Igor Markevitch, in the Swiss Alps near Montreux, "chère Nadia" herself,-white-haired, prim as ever in a black evening gown, held court before such famous ex-pupils as Pianist Clara Haskil, Cellist Pierre Fournier, Composer Darius Milhaud...
Married. Pablo Casals, 80, famed expatriate Spanish cellist; and Martita Montañez, 20, of Puerto Rico, his fourth wife and his student for the past three years; in San Juan...
Haydn, the first great master of the quartet medium, was represented by his Quartet in G Major, Opus 77, No. 1. Although composed in his last years, it is a fresh and daring work. The four musicians--violinists Marc Gottlieb and Vladimir Weisman, violist William Schoen, and 'cellist Irving Klein--performed it with a fine sense of ensemble and suitable restraint; in fact, the 'cellist tended to be too restrained. The first two movements went particularly well...
...sprawling masses of musical foliage. Piatigorsky's playing of it was a marvel of taste and tone. Under his sensitive hands, the cello sang like a deep-throated bell, soared melodically, sank to a velvety whisper; in the more rhapsodic passages it seemed to shiver with musical delight. Cellist Piatigorsky, 54. had never seemed in better form...
...season, Piatigorsky has traveled 60,000 miles concertizing all over the world. Recently, he finished recording three Beethoven trios with Jascha Heifetz and William Primrose, and he has been invited to record Bach's six Unaccompanied Suites, long identified as a specialty of ailing Cellist Pablo Casals. Next season Piatigorsky will take a "sabbatical" to pursue two of his other interests-oceanography ("You know what oceanographers do on their vacation? They go in the water") and lizard and snake collecting ("It's extraordinary how intolerant people are about snakes"). But there will still be music. His 19-year...