Word: fiddlers
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...mumbling about dynamics, he reports: the orchestra "played loud." He announced firmly, of Composer Samuel Barber, that "his heart is pure." In café lingo he declared that a chorus sang "perfectly. But perfectly." He also twists the tails of Carnegie Hall's sacred cows. Thomson on Fiddler Jascha Heifetz...
...rescue. It announced that a Federal grand jury would investigate charges that Petrillo had conspired with radio chains and concert-booking agencies "in an attempt to destroy" A. G. M. A. Despite this apparent reprieve for A. G. M. A., one of its board members, Fiddler Albert Spalding, resigned at week's end, applied for membership in A. F. of M. He said he accepted the court decision, felt that A. F. of M. would treat him right...
...going through all the motions: the swart, longish-haired leader led away; the brasses, the saxophones, the clarinets made a great show of fingering and blowing, but the only sound from the stage was a rhythmic swish-swish from the trap-drummer, a froggy slap-slap from the bull-fiddler, a soft plunk-plunk from the pianist. This, explained Leader Raymond Scott, was silent music...
Last autumn the impresarios of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Young People's Concerts hit on a bright idea: let prodigies perform before their peers. To puerile applause, they presented 8-year-old and 11-year-old pianists, a 12-year-old fiddler, a 14-year-old clarinetist. Last week they trotted out a talent which was more special and more exciting...
...Balustrade, like the ballets of the old days in Paris, was a pudding of the several arts. The music was by Igor Stravinsky, and conducted by him. It was his Violin Concerto, played by Samuel Dush-kin, who helped "edit" it ten years ago and is about the only fiddler who ever saws it through. The choreography was by George Balanchine (born Balanchivadze in Russian Georgia), who never tires of finding things for legs to do. The scenery and costumes, mostly black, white and silvery grey, were by plausible Artist Paul Tchelit-cheff, whose white balustrade, in receding fool...