Word: mintz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SHLOMO MINTZ has been a quickly rising talent in the United States since his debut at age 16 in Carnegie Hall. He has shown up everywhere from Mostly Mozart concerts with Yo Yo Ma at Lincoln Center to solo appearances with the Israeli Symphony. He recently recorded the Mendelssohn and Bruch (G minor) violin concerti. However, his most recent accomplishment, a recording of Kreisler pieces and arrangements, shows he lacks good taste and ability in program selection. These Kreisler shorts have been encore pieces for violinistic virtuosos since they were first recorded by Kreisler in the mid-1920s. They...
...Mintz's musicianship becomes his salvation too, especially in the well-known Liesbesleid (Love's Sorrow), Liebesfreud (Love's Joy) and Caprice viennois op. 2. Mintz plays ricochet bowings and fancy-fingered high notes in the umpteenth position with more clarity and precision than the old master himself (Kreisler had to be a genius to be able to make millions of his concerts and records and manage to get away with an hour's practicing once a month). Shlomo's earthy, robust tone enlivens every phrase in these three pieces...
...halftime as the Ivy League Player of the Era, meaning the best player in the league's 25-year history. Several Harvard alums made the All-Era squad, including Pat McInally, who did first-team double-duty at split end and punter...On hand for the festivities was Ben Mintz, longtime Cornell SID. "Eddie was one in a million," said Mintz about Marinaro...
...breaststroke on Friday night, added a bronze medal to his collection with a third in the 200-yd. event. Putterman's performance is even more remarkable considering that less than two weeks ago he was hospitalized with a severe case of the flu. Bulldog breaststrokers Tom Mintz and John Rogers, who will represent Yale in the NCAA's took first and second...
...trip "seems like an appropriate use of funds," Marcia Mintz, the Fogg's financial advisor, said yesterday. In addition to the museum's funding, Sayre, who stresses work with original material in her seminar, has received two private donations and a grant from another university...