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...extraordinarily gifted virtuoso. Milstein is still a master of the bravura composers-Max Bruch, Sarasate-but he has found new and interesting things to say about Brahms, Beethoven, Bach. The keynotes of great Milstein performances are their flash and fire. Milstein is willing to take chances-on trip-hammer tempos, flashing colors, amazing fluctuations in volume. His taste as a listener runs to chamber music: symphony concerts, says Violinist Milstein, are "cold excitement, because the man who makes the music-the conductor-doesn't make the sound...
...still remembers: a fiercely dedicated underground called the American Association of Theatre Organ Enthusiasts. Like the electric-trolley buffs and the antique-auto fanciers, the Enthusiasts are a diehard coterie, with a single-minded mission: to save those mighty relics of the recent past from the wrecker's hammer...
...Organization. At Salan's signal, pied-noir demonstrators rush from their homes shouting "De Gaulle to the gallows!" and hammer out on dishpans the deafening rhythm of "Al-gé-rie Fran-caise!" Salan's nod is sufficient to explode plastic bombs* under the bed of a Gaullist security chief in Oran or on the doorstep of a police inspector in Algiers. After each deed, Salan's men boast: "The S.A.O. strikes when it wants, how it wants, where it wants...
...nationalist rebels under Communist Ho Chi Minh. The struggle against the Communists proved a nightmare that dragged on for years and pitted swift guerrillas against a ponderous French army fighting a classic war with tanks, planes and heavy artillery. It was like trying to swat mosquitoes with a sledge hammer...
...gold medal for unconventionality. To begin with, his turntable is mounted on a 3/4" thick, solid mahogany motor-board, which is in turn affixed to a 1" thick slab of marble! The exact opposite of shock mounting, this insures that a chance whack by anything short of a sledge hammer will leave his needle firmly and serenely in the groove. "Firmly" isn't the right word here, though, since Bruce uses the new Audio Dynamics ADC-1 cartridge and tracks it (in his home-made professional arm) at about 3/4 of a gram! The ADC-1 is one indication...