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LILIT GAMPEL: A wispy, delicate child who looks younger than her 13 years, Lilit is an astonishingly assured violinist who appeared as soloist last year with the New York Philharmonic and Seattle Symphony, was seen and heard two weeks ago on the Dick Cavett Show, and has just completed a recital tour of California, Washington and Utah. Home is a comfortable, bookish old Spanish house in Los Angeles. Father Leonard is a physicist, Mother Eva a biochemist; neither is a musician. Brother Alan, 9, much to Lilit's annoyance, is as dedicated to the drums as the piano...
...Solti fled to Switzerland in 1939 and lived out the war there, boning up on his piano, winning first prize in the Concours International at Geneva, and developing a reputation as both soloist and chamber-music player. In 1945, then 33, desperately in search of an opportunity to conduct, Solti got word that Pianist Edward Kilenyi, an American who had studied in Budapest back in the 1920s (and whom Solti had got to know then), was the music-control officer for the U.S. occupation forces in Bavaria. Solti shot off a letter to Kilenyi and ended up with...
SANDERS THEATER. Bach Society Orchestra. Mozart: Concerto No. 10 for Two Pianos (Paul Rosenbloom and Hugh Wolff, soloists); Bach: Cantata No. 82 (Justino Diaz, basso soloist). Tickets...
Bruch: Two Violin Concertos (Yehudi Menuhin, soloist, plays Concerto No. 1 in G Minor and No. 2 in D Minor, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult conducting, Angel; $5.98). The G Minor Violin Concerto was an instant success, but to Max Bruch's sorrow his second violin concerto won only initial acclaim that soon faded. While the world applauded the G Minor, the neglected D Minor remained Bruch's favorite. Now Yehudi Menuhin has recorded the pair in a performance of such luscious tone and melodic charm that even Bruch's duckling is at last a swan...
DUNSTER HOUSE LIBRARY. Brandenburg Party. Strings invited to a reading of Mozart: Flute Concerto, K. 313 (Kathy Flanders, soloist) and Symphonies Nos. 35 and 40. April...