Word: henryk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TOURAINE FESTIVAL (June 28-July 5), Meslay, central France, held in a barn built by monks in 1220, has scheduled performances by Pianists Sviatoslav Richter and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Violinist Henryk Szeryng, Soprano Evelyn Lear and her husband, Baritone Thomas Stewart...
...streets, crowded with 18th century Poles of every class, that the city's postwar reconstructionists turned for aid in rebuilding dozens of bombed-out structures. "Bellotto's use of the camera obscura made him able to achieve complete precision of proportions," points out Ministry of Culture Engineer Henryk Wasowicz. "The technique yielded pictures as precise as any technical drawing...
...Amsterdam, who is forever dashing off to the concert hall on emergency calls. "I usually discover there is nothing wrong," he says, "except with the artists' nerves. I tell them that their violin is fine and then they are happy." So, ultimately, are the audiences, for as Violinist Henryk Szeryng says, the miracle of "the fragile little box is that we can produce sounds that penetrate people's hearts and provoke tears just by drawing horsehair over sheep guts...
...symphonies are free from the national mannerisms that mark European orchestras. And while European players tend to grow phlegmatic in the security of their state-subsidized jobs, the self-supporting arrangement in the U.S. engenders a competition that compels each musician to produce his best. Says Concert Violinist Henryk Szeryng: "I always find that my best accompaniments in the U.S. are in February and March, the time when contracts come up for renewal...
...almost too much for one Pole in the audience. He rushed backstage, burst into Rubinstein's dressing room, and began hugging and kissing the startled pianist, exclaiming in Polish: "That was the greatest thing I ever heard!" When the kissing stopped, he introduced himself as Henryk Szeryng, a 32-year-old music teacher at the National University of Mexico. Intrigued at finding a countryman so far from home, Rubinstein inquired: "Do you play at all?" Yes, his compatriot admitted, "I love to play the violin." Rubinstein forthwith invited the violinist to his hotel room for an impromptu audition. Recalls...