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Across town from Sandor's Manhattan apartment, Robert Mann, 83, fiddles away in preparation for his upcoming tour. Mann's 51 years as first violinist in the renowned Juilliard Quartet now seem like a musical warm-up for the multifaceted career he has pursued since he retired from the group in 1997. At an upcoming concert that typifies his new approach to performing, Mann will conduct, play chamber music, perform on violin and viola and debut his own composition--all on the same program. "When you love your art, it's easy to keep going," he says. "There's always...
...Mann and Sandor are connecting with a long tradition of classical artists who have performed and taught well into their golden years. For centuries, classical music has been an art form that reveres its old masters, those gifted few like Vladimir Horowitz, Yehudi Menuhin and Pablo Casals whose performances, like fine wine, improve with age. And as musicians train their muscles for ever longer careers, an unprecedented number of older talents reign on the concert scene. While prodigies as young as 6 draw crowds with their youthful showmanship, many of music's eldest statesmen are over 80--and still playing...
...Michael Mann has yet to strike out and he has Tom Cruise and Mark Ruffalo for the cabbie-in-peril thriller Collateral. The reliable Johnny Depp also tries for a second consecutive Academy nod in J.M. Barrie’s Neverland, as the titular author of Peter Pan. And finally, Michael Moore’s Bush-bashing documentary Fahrenheit 9-11 will sparkle as the Winged Migration of 2004. “Kerry/Moore 2004” has a nice ring to it, don’t you think...
Junior catcher and cleanup hitter Schuyler Mann belted three home runs on the weekend to go along with 8 RBI. As if that wasn’t enough, the sophomore trio of Lance Salsgiver, Zak Farkes and Josh Klimkiewicz each picked up eight hits on the weekend, showing the form that made them among the best rookies in the Ivy League a season...
...Mann finished the game 4-for-6 with two homers and six RBI, while Farkes went 5-for-7 with a pair of homers and three RBI in a tantalizing display of power...