Word: horowitz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, K. 364 (and other works) (David Oistrakh, soloist and conductor, Berlin Philharmonic; Angel, 4 LPs, $23.92). The riddle of the Sphinx is nothing compared with the mystery of Mozart interpretation. How else explain the existence of so many otherwise great men of music (Horowitz, Stokowski, to name but two) among the ranks of failed Mozarteans? David Oistrakh is emphatically not one of them. His playing (that curvaceous tone especially) has a touch of the romantic, but not enough to tarnish the piquant bloom of youth that imbues all these works. Mostly, Oistrakh...
...Horowitz said that a McGovern victory would, however, provide an indirect domestic boon to the left. "It's always better for the left to have a liberal in," he explained. "The atmosphere gets very good for organizing...
Regarding McGovern's domestic proposals, Horowitz said: "It's clear he doesn't want to shake up things...
...Horowitz said a Nixon victory would be "pretty demoralizing" but that he did not "foresee any great move toward repression." He said a second term Nixon would benevolently expand trade and try to achieve economic prosperity. "However, the minorities will be cut out," he said. "The race question is underestimated and it may still explode...
Staughton Lynd '50, noted author and organizer, yesterday echoed Horowitz's assessment of the reason the McGovern campaign is faltering. "McGovern's big mistake is that he does not take a few issues and talk about them at length like George Wallace did," he said. "He comes across to working people as someone who has long complicated proposals he keeps changing...