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...studiously that even major orchestras find it difficult to hire string-section replacements. But Stern and four other greatly gifted players have lifted the solo violin to an eminence any age could envy. Standing with Stern as the world's finest: Zino Francescatti, David Oistrakh, Nathan Milstein, Jascha Heifetz...
...NATHAN MILSTEIN, 57. another native of Odessa, was a student of famed Hungarian-born Leopold Auer at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where, recalls Milstein, the young Heifetz was already established as "the Prince of Wales of fiddlers." A post-conservatory concert success in Russia, Milstein left for Paris in 1925, gave concerts with an old Russian friend, Pianist Vladimir Horowitz. It was not until after World War II, when he married and settled down in Manhattan, that he began to build a reputation as something more than an extraordinarily gifted virtuoso. Milstein is still a master of the bravura composers...
Died. Alexander Hilsberg, 61, Warsaw-born product of the St. Petersburg violin-prodigy assembly line (others: Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein) who served 20 years as concertmaster of the "ideal orchestra" of his youth, the Philadelphia, before taking over the New Orleans Symphony in 1952; of heart and kidney disease; in Camden...
...visiting violinist once bitterly referred to the "grotto acoustics" of the lakeside pavilion), the festival directors nevertheless present excellent large-scale concerts by the Orchestre National de Paris and the Symphony of the Nordwestdeutsche Rundfunk. Among the participants: Conductors Eugen Jochum, Ernest Ansermet and Andre Cluytens, Virtuosos Nathan Milstein, Artur Rubinstein, Pierre Fournier, Zino Francescatti...
...Milstein now plays about 80 times a year on a U.S.-and-European schedule that is complicated by his adamant refusal to step into an airplane. A collector of fine paintings and a fancier of the good life ("There is no use to spend money unless it is for the best"), Milstein is not sure even now that he would repeat his career in music if he had it to do all over again. "In Russia," he explains ironically, "life is so dreary there is nothing to distract. But here my daughter has television, she has skiing-why music...