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...heard Ricci play as a child. Included were Sarasate's Malagueña and Zapateado, Kreisler's Liebesleid and Liebesfreud and La Gitana. Standing with a kind of Frank Sinatra slouch before the double microphones, tiny (5 ft. 4 in.) Violinist Ricci grasped his Guarnerius del Gesù fiddle in his short, square hands and produced a tone that was remarkable both for its control and its shading. He was at his best in the Sarasate Habañera and Jota Navarra-music that calls for the sort of flash and fire that have distinguished Ricci throughout...
...minutes one evening last week, an audience in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall watched a short (5 ft. 6 in.), pudgy man in white tie and tails play a 1737 Guarneri del GesÙ violin. In that time Virtuoso Isaac Stern, backed by the New York Philharmonic, worked his way through three separate concertos (Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Brahms's Concerto for Violin and Cello, Alban Berg's Violin Concerto), giving each of them the luminous tone and the warmly lyric sentiment that are his specialties...
Though love has led all three into deserts, all three have their attractiveness. Mauriac lets Dr. Courrèges put his strongest case for Maria Cross: "I know that somewhere in her are the makings of a saint...
Pretti clucked sympathetically and went on to the sleek Barca d'Oro, an expensive restaurant. In these elegant surroundings Pretti smiled and bowed politely, but in the dimly lit workers' restaurant in the Via del Gesù he shifted to an easy manner and a broad Milanese dialect. He explained: "I must put myself in harmony with the environment...
...Gesù, Pretti met his sharpest test. As he carried his case of Coke into one restaurant, a wine-drinking taxi driver called out: "There comes the licorice water!" Pretti indignantly reeled off a long list of Coke ingredients which had nothing to do with licorice. "Have you," Pretti asked, "ever tasted Coca-Cola?" Said the taxi driver: "Once-and never again." Said Pretti: "Ah, but you must try Coca-Cola in the wine." He produced two bottles and poured them into a glass of Chianti. Two of the customers tasted the mixture. They approved of it cautiously. As Pretti...