Word: cellistic
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Concertgoers the world over have heard the Kurtz brothers-but rarely together. Conductor Efrem, 51, has always shied away from family favoritism in picking his soloists. Cellist Edmund, 43, a front-rank virtuoso, has always agreed, but he adds, "Brothers can come together occasionally to have a little musical outing." Up to last week, they had had only three such outings in 25 years: in Stuttgart, Berlin and Kansas City, Mo. Houston, where Efrem has led the symphony since 1948, was treated to the fourth...
Southern Californians have grown used to the captain's doings. At 76, he is a leathery, laconic philanthropist whose personal fortune has been a source of never-ending wonders. He is a marine biologist, an aviator, a sea captain, a locomotive engineer, an accomplished cellist. In his own way, he is also something of an educator...
Though they sound as if they have been playing together all their lives, the Italiano was formed only after the war. First Violinist Paolo Borciani rounded up the others-Elisa, Violist Piero Farulli and Cellist Franco Rossi-on a promise of "some money and good food." After less than four months of practice they gave their first concert. They have had their hands full ever since...
...quartet's four members are as American as White Christmas. First Violinist Mann, 31, comes from Portland, Ore.; Second Violinist Robert Koff, 32, from Los Angeles; Violist Raphael Hillyer, 37, from Hanover, N.H., and Cellist Arthur Winograd, 31, from Manhattan. Mann and Koff knew each other at the Juilliard conservatory; Winograd and Hillyer, a onetime violinist in the Boston Symphony, met at Tanglewood. After the war (all but Hillyer were in the Army), they got together and persuaded Juilliard President William Schuman that they were exactly what he wanted for a resident quartet...
...organization (named after the Baroque Collegia, meaning simply "a musical group") is composed of several fine artists. Outstanding Monday night were 'cellist Samuel Mayes and flutist James Pappoutsakis, both of whom exhibited technical prowess as well as sensitive, restrained interpretations...