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...Bruno Hoffman-the one and only glass harmonica virtuoso. Along with lonely exponents of the virginal, the psaltery and the oboe d'amore, there are 166 violinists, 88 organists, 73 harpsichordists, 64 flautists and 56 cellists listed, each count a statistical gain over 1960. Walter Gieseking and Sviatoslav Richter are the leading pianists, with 46 recordings each; Richter had only 19 three years ago, and, having made the biggest jump of any instrumentalist, he is now being denounced as a musical prostitute for turning out such a long and uneven list of recordings. David Oistrakh is beginning to slip...
Bartok composed the Scherzo when he was 24, entranced by the windy sonorities of Richard Strauss, and he filled the work with rolling Straussian orchestrated sounds. But the scheduled 1905 premiere never took place. At the last moment, Bartok withdrew the Scherzo, because Hans Richter (who was to have led the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, with Bartok at the piano) had not had time to study and annotate the master score and there were many mistakes in copied parts. That same year, Bartok discovered folk music, and his infatuation with Strauss ended abruptly. There were no requests to revive his unplayed...
...ranked No. 2 in the country. Its passer was Ron VanderKelen, 23, a bean-tall senior from football-crazy Green Bay, who played only 90 seconds in his first two varsity years but was voted the Big Ten's Most Valuable Player this season. Its end was Pat Richter, 21, who caught 38 passes, made ten All-America teams. Wisconsin also felt it had a little score to settle. Six times this season, schools from...
...Richter also worked. Returning to his old graveyard-shift practice schedule, he would emerge from his studio alone in the middle of the night, then wander down to a restaurant in Les Halles and eat platters of sea urchins fresh from the shore. Such excursions seemed enriching, and by the night of his first concert, Richter was ready with more than just music. Hoping to cast a sympathetic spell for his program of Chopin and Schumann, Richter adorned the Salle Gaveau stage with flowers, tapestries and a battalion of immense candelabra-a naive little gesture that welcomed disaster by suggesting...
...Richter was so exhausted for his final concert that he talked of canceling out, then appeared to play a brutal program of Hindemith's First Sonata, five Shostakovich preludes and fugues, Prokofiev's Sixth Sonata and, for encores, a bouquet of Prokofiev Visions Fugitives. Had his playing improved? Though the atmosphere that surrounded him could not help but candy the reviews, Paris could only say: "Such taste, such wonderful music, such flair...