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...full house was in a show-me mood. The opening applause was just polite. Igor played César Franck's Sonata in A with half-closed eyes focused on his finger board, his lips compressed, mouth working. It was an impressive, boldly colored performance. The next work, Bach's knuckle-busting G Minor Sonata, is a test for any violinist. Violinist Oistrakh seemed to anticipate it with both distaste and fear and played as if to get it over with. It was, however, the evening's only disappointment. After works by Prokofiev, Szymanowski and Saint...
...performers in the spectacular tradition of Liszt and Anton Rubinstein* had set himself a schedule of no less than 17 major works in a series of five concerts in 13 days-all the concertos of Beethoven and Brahms, plus ten works by Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Liszt, Chopin, Falla, Franck and Schumann...
DOROTHEA SEELYE FRANCK Washington...
...seven University professors contacted last night all said they had heard of Laxness, but did not know very much about him. Some remarked that they had been planning to read some of his works, and one, Taylor Starck, Kuno Franck Professor of German Art and Culture, remarked that now he will "have to look up Laxness's books in the very near future...
While having no definite plans, Franck said he would sometime like to take a return trip...