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...appearance, wrote scribes of the era, was "cadaverous," and there was something so supernatural about 19th century Violin Virtuoso Nicolo Paganini "that one looked for a glimpse of a cloven hoof or an angel's wing." Onstage, the maestro would often contort his body into bizarre stances. His tours de force, like playing a pizzicato accompaniment with his left hand while bowing with his right, prompted audiences to whisper that Paganini was in league with the devil. But alas, he was merely mortal, according to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The violinist, writes...
...details" in Balzac's Paris, Sennett writes, "is constructed such that general forces have a meaning only as they can be reflected in individual cases." But instead of showing the gradual dominance of personality in the public realm, Sennett shifts the scene abruptly--to the concert hall where Paganini made his violin performances more riveting than the music itself, to the barricades of 1848 where Lamartine made his frequent appearances before the workers more inspiring than his policies, and to the courtroom where Zola in J'Accuse made the matter of personal honor in the Dreyfus Case a more important...
...square meal. He weighs but 125 lbs. and consequently looks a foot taller than his 5 ft. 9 in. He wears his brown hair long and his sideburns an inch below the ears. His agile fingers could well be the longest and skinniest since the days of Nicolo Paganini...
...With Paganini Competition winner Lynn Chang graduating in June, the Kogan/Chang/Ma trio will give its final Harvard performance this Saturday with the Bach Society. They will pit their formidable technical and musical skills against the Beethoven Triple Concerto, known affectionately as the Cripple Concerto because of the tremendous demands it makes upon the soloists. Stravinsky's marvelous Pulcinella Suite will also be on the program...
Lynn Chang, violin, and Richard Kogan, piano, will play Bach and Brahms sonatas and fantasies of Schubert and Paganini...