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COSIMA WAGNER'S DIARIES, VOL. I, 1869-1877 Edited by Martin Gregor-Dellin and Dietrich Mack Translated by Geoffrey Skelton; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 1199 pages...
...Gregor I. McGregor, attorney for Red Line Alert, told the group, "You are not just the typical citizens who can be counted on in every case to scream. You have a bona fide case if you choose to present it in court...
...playing the cello at six when his father, an amateur violist, and his mother, a pianist, started their son practicing in hopes of gaming an addition to their family chamber group. At 13, he made his debut with a symphony orchestra in Redlands, Calif., and began studying with Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky...
...fine cello musk. Casals' technical genius, moreover, virtually revolutionized cello playing. He extended the instrument's physical possibilities, stretching his left hand over the finger board instead of sliding it, and in so doing broadened the range of phrasing, intonation and expression. The outstanding cellists who followed?Emanuel Feuermann, Gregor Piatigorsky, Pierre Fournier, Leonard Rose, Janos Starker?all owe Casals a monumental debt...
...Died. Gregor Piatigorsky, 73, Russian-born cello virtuoso; after a long illness; in Los Angeles. First cellist of Moscow's Imperial Theater at 14, Piatigorsky moved to the U.S. and made his debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1929. After 1962 he taught at the University of Southern California along with his friend Jascha Heifetz. An enormous man with huge hands, Piatigorsky was a master of the sweeping line and romantic phrasing. A performer, he said, must constantly strive "to make the music as good as it really...