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...sent alumni by the score into virtually every major U.S. orchestra. Its quality amazes visiting conductors, especially Europeans unaccustomed to amateur playing on such an ambitious scale. Last week's concert included, in addition to the Beethoven selection, Mozart's Concerto No. 4 for Violin and Orchestra, Chausson's Poem for Violin and Orchestra, the overture to Rossini's Barber of Seville. The orchestra negotiated all of them with every minim and crotchet in place," and with a typical air of lyric enthusiasm...
Less purely fundamental work has found itself subjected to similar ill-treatment. The composer deBreville wrote of his colleague Chausson: "He had no reason to fear or avoid vulgarity for he knew not what it was." And then the legions of Hollywood score composers came along and bled Franck, Chausson and company for all they were worth. It takes a pure mind not to find traces of "movie-music" in Chausson. But Chausson is not responsible for what happened; nor are the worshippers of the African jungles or of Oceania responsible for what became of their religious expression...
...enjoy touring together, their encouragement of modern composers is as much a matter of necessity as of dedication to the cause. They commission new music for violin and piano duos ("We pay quite small fees, but something"). If they did not commission such works, they would be left with Chausson, Haydn, and very little else. Much of what they play is twelve-tone music. Says Anahid: "It's difficult, and some of it sounds awful at first, with all those great jumps all over the place. But often there are quite beautiful melodies...
...Neveu; Angel). A memorial album for Ginette Neveu, the richly talented French violinist who died in an airplane crash five years ago. This piece is one of Debussy's last, and, while not his best, it is full of his special kind of interest. Also on the disk: Chausson's Poeme and Ravel's Tzigane...
After the intermission, he fiddled even more brilliantly, melting the audience with his interpretations of Chausson, Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns and Ysaÿe. He took eight more curtain calls, played three encores. The critics next day were equally enthusiastic. Glowed La Nazione Italiana: "A tremendous violinist. His tone is of exceptional power . . . His left hand has the agility of a rope dancer...