Word: fiddlers
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Pete Seeger remarking on a folk music festival he once attended in Ireland, pointed out that "there are no large groups like this one [the Sunday night concert at Newport], but wherever there is a fiddler or a balled singer the people gather, and that's their festival." And although most of what one hears of Newport is record crowds and jammed facilities, the Festival is more than a series of concerts; it, too, has this sense of participation that Seeger noted in Ireland. The people who come to Newport come to listen, but they also come to play...
...waves of John Kennedy's assassination, he has plunged into the presidency with a headlong velocity. No man in the White House has ever moved faster. Few have managed to brand their personality on the presidency so quickly and so indelibly. Corny as johnnycake, folksy as a country fiddler, persuasive as a television pitchman, he is also both efficient and effective, and he can already count several considerable achievements in his brief Administration...
...being denounced as a musical prostitute for turning out such a long and uneven list of recordings. David Oistrakh is beginning to slip from record shelves, but with 70 of his recordings available, he still has nearly twice as many as Jascha Heifetz, the next most popular fiddler. E. Power Biggs leads the organists, and the cellist with the largest recorded repertory is Janos Starker...
...made principal conductor of the Philharmonia for life in 1959, Klemperer has mellowed considerably, rarely giving in to the manic moods and deep depressions of his earlier career (he had been known to grab a violin from a player's hand and smash it over the fiddler's head). When not conducting, he lives in a Zurich apartment, attended by his daughter Lotte, never grants interviews and goes out only for occasional walks. His recent recordings have been so good that they have furnished him with what amounts to a new career. Although English critics grumble...
...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...