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Most of the musicians are paid union scale, and soloists usually work for less than their concert fee. Last spring Pianist Eugene Istomin volunteered a free month of his time for a four-nation tour that was among the year's most successful. This year Ellington is donating his time for the price of his telephone bill; hip to the Duke's grand manner, the State Department has wisely limited him to $100 worth of calls...
...main dance floor, in the sunken garden, three red-and-gold-liveried musicians played songs under the stars for sentimentalists who just wanted to sit and listen. Inside the house, Pianist George Feyer was arpeggioing his way through music to drink by when Janet arrived to exchange her wilting bouquet for one of the fresh ones on the mantlepiece. Suddenly Feyer was accompanying Janet in a surprisingly expert rendition of I Could Have Danced All Night, followed by a rich barroom version of After the Ball Was Over from Randolph Churchill...
Giving an outdoor performance in Washington, D.C., puckish Pianist Victor Borge, 54, became the first Danish-born Connecticut resident ever to play a piano on the steps of the Capitol. "It's nice to hear some harmony on Capitol Hill," quipped Borge to an audience sprinkled with Senators and Representatives. "I was in the Far East spreading good will. Then I read the news in the papers, and thought I'd better come home." The show was arranged by Connecticut's Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff, who hoped it would help sell Congress on his pending bill...
...West; it has sold the licensing rights for a continuous casting method to France's Schneider Steel Co. and to the U.S. Casting Corp. In recent years touring Soviet ballet and concert artists have brought home $1,500,000 from Britain alone, where Violinist David Oistrakh, Pianist Svyatoslav Richter and others command richer fees than U.S. artists. As well, every Communist nation has pawnshops known as "commission houses," which buy heirlooms from local people for soft Red money and sell them to visiting Westerners with an eye for china, jewelry or rare first editions...
...they please. The knowledgeable public that attends the weekend concerts does not always know exactly what work will be played, but does know that it will be performed with love, zest, and craftsmanlike precision. There is no cult of personality at Marlboro despite the musical giants on the premises. Pianist Rudolf Serkin, who has also been playing at Tanglewood this season, is artistic director of the chamber music workshop. Pablo Casals is conducting master classes on the Bach Unaccompanied Cello Suites and Gamba Sonatas and public performances of Mendelssohn's Fourth Symphony (the "Italian" Symphony) and Beethoven...