Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the teen-aged violinist made his debut in Manhattan 25 years ago, one critic suggested that "David may turn into a musician of stature when he grows up." Only he never really grew up - physically, that is. Artistically, however, David Nadien developed into a giant. He demonstrated that last week at Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall when he strode on stage - all 5 ft. 4 in. and 116 lbs. of him - and played Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with elegance and grace, a tone pure and silken, and a technique that was a marvel of dizzy ing leaps...
...Chicago's Steven Staryk, 34, like Nadien, worked as a studio musician, mostly "playing the music for bedroom scenes in movies." Articulate, supremely cool, the Toronto-born violinist was appointed concertmaster of the London Royal Philharmonic at 24, then played in the same capacity with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw before going to Chicago in 1962. Says he: "The days of the swaying, anticipating, overanxious concertmaster are over. Today, masterly musicianship and maximum self-control are the order...
...ever, answering cheers at a concert celebrating his 60th birthday. Composer Dmitri Shostakovich received another gift too: the Soviet title of Hero of Socialist Labor. Best of all was the successful first Moscow performance of his new piece, Cello Concerto No. 2, conducted by a similarly slight, bespectacled musician: Dmitri's 28-year-old son Maxim...
Nobody really sees him. Nobody really hears him. He is the fellow in the frayed white tie and tails, the one buried seven rows back peering sourly through a cluster of elbows. He is the symphony musician - bored, frustrated and anonymous. So he didn't become the second Heifetz as everybody back in Glen Falls said he would. There was nothing else to do but join a big-city symphony, file lock-step onto the stage - no talking, please - and, at the nod of the imperious maestro, saw away mechanically at the Brahms First for the 101st time...
Simultaneously and without sentimentality, Herbert, who narrates as well as produces Experiment, reveals the whole man - musician, engaging classroom instructor, collector of old Chaplin films, and gifted home moviemaker...