Word: musician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York, he swiveled around in moments of inaction and regarded the orchestra's string section with an intensity so fierce that it seemed ready to wither the first violinists. But Barenboim's dis concerting mannerisms are only the mark of an extra-attentive and highly sensitive musician who believes that each perform ance is "an experience to be lived. I listen because their part is just as important," he says. ''I never think of piano playing -only of making music." Barenboim makes music uncommonly well - as audiences in the U.S. and Europe have become increasingly aware...
...knew all 32 of the Beethoven sonatas). He works at the piano only about two hours a day, because "you may lose freshness if you sit all day practicing." sometimes plays the violin to help him understand what the composer has written for the piano and feels that every musician should do some composing (as he does) to give his playing "a quality of understanding." Though he has made six recordings, he does not enjoy listening to them. "One of the symptoms of development is change." he says. "You do not want to return to something you did long...
...Hungarian, szigeti means "insular." All too often that precisely describes the life of the professional performing musician--no more extensive than the routine of performance. But Joseph Szigeti's life takes in the whole sea of adventure in and out of music. And his treasure ship is the violin...
...satisfied his artistic intention. When he brought his great orchestra to Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week, it put on the kind of performance demanded by a conductor who wants his players to "see music from the inside." The Cleveland's program reflected the tastes of a musician who champions contemporary scores but is firmly schooled in "the great Viennese classics." Alongside Veteran Composer Howard Hanson's Bold Island Suite, Szell offered Haydn's Symphony No. Q2 ("Oxford"), Brahms's Violin Concerto in D (with Erica Morini as the excellent soloist), and Rossini...
Kreisler looked on Cellist Pablo Casals as "the greatest musician to draw a bow," and in his old age, he deplored the "fear of sentiment" among younger musicians. As for his own career: "I have achieved only a medium approach to my ideal in music," said Fritz Kreisler at 79. "I got only fairly near." Perhaps-but he got as close as any other mortal fiddler...