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...friends Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and Violinist William Primrose. Next week he will begin teaching master classes (no more than four students) at the University of Southern California. He will also do some recording this year and give a few concerts. But he will never again be a traveling soloist. Says Heifetz: "It requires the nerves of a bullfighter, the vitality of a woman who runs a nightclub, and the concentration of a Buddhist monk...
...Humorist Herb Shriner, whose Larchmont, N.Y., home shelters a 14-rank Wurlitzer salvaged from the old Chicago Arena. Shriner is better known as a harmonica player (he recently played as soloist with the Cleveland Symphony) than as an organist. Says he: "All my life I wanted a mouth organ big enough to set down to, and now I've got it. My wife calls it a mechanical mother...
...best Messiah now available is the Angel recording conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent (Angel 3598 C). Its soloist's names are relatively unfamiliar in this country (with the possible exception of the tenor, Richard Lewis), but Sir Malcolm, unlike Sir Adrian, has restrained his extravagances, and has produced a restrained, lyrical and perfectly balanced Messiah...
Finally, there's the Play of Daniel, the twelfth-century, semi-secular, demi-liturgical Christmas drama from Beauvais. Noah Greenberg has recorded his recent and acclaimed performance at the Cloisters. Russell Oberlin is a soloist (Decca...
BACH SOCIETY ORCHESTRA. Andrew Schenk conducting with Richard Wilson soloist in a Mozart piano concerto. At Paine Hall, 8:00 p.m. Sunday...