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Budapest String Quartet: Almost as unlikely as Wyatt Earp at Carnegie Hall, but much more welcome, the famed chamber-music ensemble made its debut on TV last week in an hour's recital of pieces by such rare television tunesmiths as Beethoven. Debussy and César Franck. Manhattan's WCBS and Metropolitan Educational Television Association deserved the hosannas they got for putting on a rare treat. They also fell into a pitfall of TV culture worship. It occurred to no one to point out that chamber music was returning to the living room, where it started...
...They had beaten their way across country for a month, had played and won eleven games from Texas to Kentucky. Now they faced the Little League World Series, and they were scheduled to start against some sturdy youngsters from Bridgeport, Conn, at 2:30 p.m. Coach César Faz studied his skinny, undersized squad (averaging 4 ft. 11 in., 92 lbs.), saw all the signs of fatigue and made a reasonable request. "That's when my boys usually take a siesta," he said. "Can't they play in the second game...
Vierne: Symphony No. 2 for Organ (Pierre Cochereau; London). Music by the late member of the French school of "symphonic" organists (he died at the console in 1937) founded by César Frank. The music is pretentious and harmonically shifty but has a faded fascination. It is played on the wonderful organ that Vierne played for 37 years, in Notre Dame Cathedral ; its stops range from cheese-grater harshness to buttery smoothness...
...full house was in a show-me mood. The opening applause was just polite. Igor played César Franck's Sonata in A with half-closed eyes focused on his finger board, his lips compressed, mouth working. It was an impressive, boldly colored performance. The next work, Bach's knuckle-busting G Minor Sonata, is a test for any violinist. Violinist Oistrakh seemed to anticipate it with both distaste and fear and played as if to get it over with. It was, however, the evening's only disappointment. After works by Prokofiev, Szymanowski and Saint...
...season's brightest star is César Girón, a 20-year-old Venezuelan from an old Caracas bullfighting family. A promising baseball player in high school, Girón faced his first bull when, at 15, he jumped into the Caracas bull ring during a fight and gave the fans a laugh and a thrill. Last week, in the famed old bull ring of Salamanca, Girón got the highest honors a delirious crowd could bestow...