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What started out as a routine recital by violinist Annette Colish Sunday night soon developed into an extraordinary display of musicianship and technique. Miss Colish, who is concertmistress of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and a pupil of Richard Burgin, opened her program with Corelli's Sonata No. 2. This she played quite stiffly; the notes were all there but she lacked the fire so necessary to lift the sonata above the realm of stodgy period pieces...
...distinguished violinist has been invited to do the job. This year Genoa took out some extra Paganini memorabilia, asked French Violinist Zino Francescatti to give the Guarneri its annual tuning. Perhaps because Francescatti is Paganini's lineal musical descendant (his father studied with Paganini's only real pupil), Genoese decided to give him a still greater honor: a half-hour concert in the city hall, to be played on the legendary Guarneri. His program: one of Paganini's 24 famed Caprices and the Bach Chaconne. Standing by for the event, Francescatti admitted he felt solemn...
...father of modern ballet music, Léo Delibes (1836-91). Delibes, a musical whiz-kid who was accepted at the Paris Conservatory when he was twelve, became a church organist in his teens, wrote his first stage piece (Two Cents Worth of Coal) at 19. He was a pupil of famed Adolphe (Giselle) Adam, wrote with a symphonic fluidity that made much of the ballet compositions of his contemporaries sound like music for setting-up exercises. In all, he turned out about 20 operettas and operas (including Lakmé) and several ballets (Coppélia and La Source...
Double or Nothing. In Toledo, police considered carefully, finally decided to arrest both Driving Instructor George W. Hall Jr. and Pupil Nellie E. Vasold for reckless driving, after their dual-control car hit a parked automobile...
...hours of the day. To please the taxpayer, the architect must also pay attention to cost-rby cutting down on stairways, waste space, and such traditional gimcracks as Greek columns, Georgian domes and Gothic towers. But most of all, the new school must eliminate restrictions on the pupil. Says Architect Ralph Burkhard, who remembers his own days in Manhattan's prisonlike P.S. 6: "When I design a school, all I think of is making it as different from those jails as possible...