Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emphasized the wit of Lewis Carroll's text. Director Caroline Martin presented the entire Dance Group in Eixa Nit es Nit, a haunting setting of a Catalan carol by Joaquin Nin. The dancers moved in willowy, flexible patterns, and the Choral tone was excellent. It is unfortunate that the concert was little known in the Harvard community; future joint recitals deserve better publicity...
...Serkin's eight-year-old son Peter suffers little from such retarded appreciation of music. Recently, after hearing his father and other musicians repeat the last movement of a Mozart concerto at a chamber-music concert as a joyous encore, Peter worriedly asked Serkin: "Gee, Pop, who goofed...
...pugnacious attitude, his jowls quivering earnestly with every accent. But his style was impeccable. Every bow movement, from delicate nudges at the tip to slashing down-bow accents, produced a flawless tone, fine-drawn and luminous, made mellow but not ripe by judicious use of vibrato. In a concert full of lovely little touches-his method of approaching such an essentially meaningless figure as a trill was a joy to the sense of propriety-Oistrakh even managed to breathe warmth and dignity into the withered carcasses of Tartini's "Devil's Trill" Sonata and Ysaye's distraught...
...concert stage Oistrakh appears with the small gold emblem of the Stalin Prize in the lapel of his well-tailored tails, and in 1951 he wrote an anti-American article in the Soviet review New Times about the "climate of bellicose hysteria that the American propaganda seeks to impose." (Today he half apologizes for the article by pointing to all the nasty things the Western press has said about Russia.) Oistrakh seems to enjoy a large degree of independence from the usual restrictions on junketing Russians. Getting interested in a conversation with a Western friend in a cafe...
...most of David Oistrakh's time is spent flying from concert to concert, his Stradivarius slung from one shoulder, his movie camera from the other. "Liszt had enough time to be a great composer and a great virtuoso," he complains, "and he got around on horseback." He gives 25 to 30 concerts a year in Russia, and 30 to 40 abroad. For every appearance in Russia he gets the top 5,000 rubles (his tax is never above 13%), and can keep most of whatever fees he charges for concerts abroad (upwards of $1,000 apiece). Recently, when...