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...typical program last week, the Budapest played Mozart, Brahms and Debussy for 3,300 fans in Chicago's North Shore Ravinia Park. The audience had its share of highbrows, but scattered on the lawn near the stage were hundreds of seriously attentive youngsters. Other quartets, e.g., the Paganini, Pro Arte, Griller and Juilliard, fiddle for equally enthusiastic audiences from Fond du Lac to Fort Worth...
...Ravinia Music Festival, Highland Park, Ill.: Budapest String Quartet, Jan Peerce, guests; William Steinberg, De Sabata, Monteux, Mitropoulos conducting...
Ravel: Trio in A Minor (Artur Rubinstein, piano; Jascha Heifetz, violin; Gregor Piatigorsky, cello; Victor, I side LP). The most interesting of the three trios (the other two: Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn) recorded by the famed artists who formally combined their talents for the first time at Chicago's Ravinia Park (TiME, Aug. 22, 1949). The playing in all three is sensitively superb. Recording: excellent...
...Paganini players were only part of his cast. Last week thousands of Ravinia fans, sitting on blankets on the dimly floodlit grass, listened to Soprano Lotte Lehmann, whose lieder voice, beamed Knight, "is as near to chamber music as you can get-intimate, romantic." And they heard Chilean Pianist Claudio Arrau playing Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven, as a soloist and in ensemble with the Paganini...
...Ravinia's once skeptical executive committee, crème de la crème had become solid roast beef...