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...concerts last week at the Edinburgh Festival, he played Sibelius' Concerto in D Minor, followed by Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D. In the Sibelius piece, even the longest and most difficult runs executed at the highest speed had the clarity and order of a complex molecular structure. And as always, he seemed to toss it all off as if it were the easiest thing in the world. There is also something refreshing about his obvious delight in playing. Not for him is the agonized look that seems to be the accepted expression for most great violinists; instead...
...YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERT (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "A Tribute to Sibelius...
CARL NIELSEN: SYMPHONY NO. 2 (Vox). Sibelius' contemporary and compatriot subtitled his early, danceable symphony "The Four Temperaments" and assigned a different humor to each movement: choleric, phlegmatic, melancholic and sanguine (a sanguine man, according to Nielsen, is the sort who believes that "fried pigeons will fly into his mouth without work"). Conductor Carl Garaguly and the Tivoli Concert Hall Symphony Orchestra faithfully reproduce each mood...
...Aviv's Mann Auditorium, Perlman played the Sibelius and Tchaikovsky concertos. Hunching forward, lips pursed, he coaxed an exceptionally warm and blooming tone from his instrument with his dancing, stubby fingers and vigorous strokes of the bow. Afterward the audience of 2,500 cheered for 15 minutes and shouted for an encore, something they rarely...
...might hold forth on the great men he personally knew well--Whitehead, Sibelius, Harvey Cushing, Santayana, Rolland, Koussevitzky, Sir Richard Livingstone, Gilbert Murray, Samuel Eliot Morison; or on the things absorbed into his marrow--the sweep of Homer, the wisdom of Sophocles, the vitality of Michelangelo, the depth of Beethoven, the ironies of Stendhal, the scope of Goethe, the imagination of Berlioz, the thrust of Ibsen, the grandeur of Wagner, the vigor of Whitman...