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...fate was decided before I came to this globe," says Soviet Violinist Gidon Kremer. So it seems. His mother and father were both professional violinists. Gidon's maternal grandfather handed down his fiddle when the boy was still in his teens; it just happened to be an 18th century Guadagnini. At the Moscow State Conservatory, Kremer caught the eye and ear of the late David Oistrakh and worked with him for eight years. In 1970 at the age of 23, Kremer won Moscow's esteemed Tchaikovsky Competition. Last week he arrived in the U.S. for the first time...
...Kremer appears headed for international renown. His technique is complete, his tone thinner than some but capable of glorious sunbursts of sound. He is no "Watch me go" virtuoso. His debut program, for example, was devoid of the crowd-arousing Romantic potboilers favored by so many of his Soviet predecessors. Instead, he and his piano accompanist, Xenia Knorre, played Beethoven's dreamy, introspective Sonata No. 10 in G, Op. 96. And wonderfully. They also offered an American work not many U.S. artists take the trouble to learn: Charles Ives' frolicsome Sonata No. 4 (Children...
Jonathan Mead, designer of the plane, estimates that construction will cost around $12,000. If he can raise that money, Mead hopes to build the plane and fly it in the Kremer competition in England, which offers a $24,000 prize to the first person to build and fly a man powered heavier-than-air machine around a designated course...
Princeton also has certain winners with Kremer in the backstroke and in the 500-yard freestyle, with Kris Brown, who has churned out a 4:58--a ranking national performance...
...meet, which starts at 4 p.m., should begin with an easy Tiger victory in the 400-yard medley relay. Their quartet of Jim Kremer, Bob Kahrl, captain John Kalmbach, and Bill Kjellstrom thrashed the Middles in 3:41, three seconds faster than Harvard's best...