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From Violinist Schneider, his followers have learned to expect a dedication to chamber music of almost violent intensity. Even when he was holding down posts as concertmaster, soloist and conductor in Germany, he was rarely without his own ensemble. In 1939 he visited the U.S. with the Budapest Quartet, stayed on and played with the Budapest through most of the war. Since the war, he has organized in turn a chamber music trio, a duo and the Schneider Quartet, and taken a leading part in the Casals festivals in France. Last winter, in preparation for the Haydn cycle, he rehearsed...
...Knows the Score? The professor of 50 years ago, said Wood, was "a versatile soloist of the clinic." His successor today is far different: "No longer a virtuoso, he has become the conductor of an orchestra composed of experts in an ever-increasing number of sub-specialities . . . He displays the talents of his various experts by allowing them in turn to carry the melody...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Soloist: Pianist Artur Rubinstein, playing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Conductor: Dimitri Mitropoulos; soloist: Pianist Robert Casadesus...
Anne English, from the New England Conservatory, brought stature to the title role. Her big, well-disciplined voice and perfect diction made her the outstanding soloist of the evening. She sang the "Endless Pleasure," aria about the joys she expects to find in heaven as Jupiter's mistress, with Iyric fluency. The poorly danced, unimaginative ballet sequence that accompanied her, however, was distracting...