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...soft spot in its heart for Russian musicians. Over the years it has made heroes of such men as Rachmaninoff, Horowitz, Heifetz and Stravinsky, and they in turn have made the U.S. their home. Today there is another generation of Russian virtuosos. The best of them, Violinist David Oistrakh, 47, and Pianist Emil Gilels, 38, have been sweeping through Europe in recent years, but no top Soviet artist has appeared in the U.S. since the end of World...
...German Requiem (soloists, Frankfurt Opera Chorus and Orchestra and Museum Orchestra conducted by Georg Sold; Capitol, 2 LPs); Giuseppe Torelli's Twelve Concert!, Op. 8 (Stuttgart Pro Musica String Orchestra conducted by Rolf Reinhardt; Vox, 3 LPs). Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, in fine performances by Jascha Heifetz and London's Philharmonia Orchestra under Walter Susskind (Victor), and Zino Francescatti and the New York PhilhaononicSymphony under Dimitri Mitropoulos (Columbia); Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. I (Nathan Milstein and the St. Louis Symphony conducted by Vladimir Golschmann; Capitol); Mendelssohn's Elijah (soloists, choirs and the London Philharmonic...
...Tribune. He left New York's music public gasping with his very first column, a deft and devastating panning of the sacrosanct Philharmonic-Symphony ("the sombre and spiritless sonority of a German military band"). Thereafter, he shaded old-style critics by his saucy phrases, e.g., hearing Violinist Jascha Heifetz overpower a sonatina "made one feel . . . that one had somehow got on the Queen Mary to go to Brooklyn." His compliments were apt to be delivered off his backhand: one composer, he said, "wrote Mexican music ... in the best Parisian syntax. No Indians around and no illiteracy...
...young artists-musical competitions. Said he: "I shall never again be a contest judge. Too often they are downright absurd. Why insult and discourage 14, let us say, to honor or help one?" The last time he judged a contest. Piatigorsky said, he and his fellow judge, Violinist Jascha Heifetz, heard a singer, a flutist, a clarinetist and a composer. "Now how can one say who is best among different categories? Can you compare an orange and a bicycle? Can one say which is better? They were all good young artists." Piatigorsky insisted that each contestant get a prize...
...musicians, he had a strong bent for the moderns, the more "difficult" the better. He made his first big splash when he introduced the spectacularly demanding Bartok Concerto to the U.S. in Cleveland in 1943, continued to get billowing reactions wherever he played it. ("Was this the best since Heifetz," wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein after a 1948 performance, "or was this just the best, period...