Word: schumann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well qualified to teach; he learned his own technique from one of the best: the great French pedagogue Isidor Philipp. He also picked up a few hints from his dad. Stravinsky once heard Soulima as a child playing Schumann's Etudes Symphoniques and stopped him: "Tell your teacher he will teach you my music and I will teach you Chopin and Schumann myself...
...Schumann: Symphony No. 4 (the Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). One of Schumann's most listenable works. Conductor Szell's performance is fine, but it comes off records with a feeling of tightness...
While the orchestra tuned up, "kids swarmed over the stage, inspecting everything from tubas to tympani. But when husky Conductor Ben Swalin rapped his baton for attention, they scrambled to their free seats, got set to listen. Swalin gave them excerpts from Schumann's "Spring" Symphony (No. 1), a Mozart rondo, a serving of Vaughan Williams and Berlioz and a chicken-reel. Before each number, the musicians held up the instruments to be featured so the kids could see them. And when the last chicken was reeled the youngsters hollered for more. So did the grownups at a second...
...Schumann: Manfred Overture (the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 3 sides). One of Toscanini's greatest performances on records. Beethoven's Consecration of the House Overture, on the remaining three sides, doesn't give Toscanini as much to work with. Recording: excellent...
...softspoken, self-effacing man (after his performance in Houston last week, he took a seat in the audience to listen to Efrem Kurtz conduct a Schumann symphony), Tossy is one of the few top U.S. concert violinists who have risen from orchestra ranks...