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Understatement was the dominant note of the violin and piano recital presented by Tison Street and Tonu Kalam Tuesday night at Quincy House. Street's mellow tone, meticulous phrasing, and polished technique served as a transparent medium for the expression of every nuance of the music; Tonu Kalam's accompaniment was equally controlled, if the least bit more rodust. As a combination, they were nearly flawless, freely molding the music into the shape they desired without intruding between the music and the audience...
...opening movement of J.S. Bach's Sonata No.5 was reposed and meditative. Kalam used the lyrical possibilities of the piano to spin out long, smooth lines. Street's approach was even more subdued; his tone was always sweet-sometimes almost ethereal...
...rest of the sonata sounded equally refined; Street and Kalam negotiated the complex counterpoint and rhythms of the fast movements with complete confidence. Unfortunately, Street was consistently slightly overbalanced by the piano. His playing never became at all fiery, while Kalam's did on occasion. In every other respect, however, the performers' coordination was perfect--quite an achievement considering the dynamic and rhythmic liberties they took with the sonata...
Died. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, 69, Indian Minister of Education, Natural Resources and Scientific Research, Jeader in his country's independence movement, intimate of Gandhi and Nehru, scholar; of a stroke; in New Delhi. At the Moslem service for the Mecca-born philosopherstatesman (with about 100,000 mourners, the largest Indian funeral gathering since the cremation of Gandhi), Prime Minister Nehru wept, said: "The whole nation has been orphaned...
...Less than three weeks before the Andhra election, the 25 top leaders of Nehru's Congress Party gathered in nearby Madras, prop ping themselves up against cushions on a great white mattress. The Congressmen's names were big names of the Gandhi days: Govind Ballabh Pant, Abul Kalam Azad, Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar; the setting was Gandhian, in a tenement, and many of the leaders traveled to Madras Gandhi-style, in jampacked third-class carriages. But they were painfully aware that India's Congress officials had since drifted away from the people; the old men on the mattress could...