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Mapping the Campaign. The Serenade for Four Orchestras played before the biggest crowd of the season-14,592-but the drawing card was Van Cliburn as soloist in the main body of the program. When Serenade's opening statement in the Number One orchestra ended and the echoes began, everybody looked surprised, and there was much craning of necks to locate the elusive Four. In 18 minutes it was over, and the audience gave it a warm round of applause, but no accolade. Said one female Cliburnite to a colleague: "What the hell was that...
Judy Collins, 25, is neither a novice at her art nor as unfamiliar as some of her contemporaries with the sensation of distress. The folk circuit, her "road to communicate," is a lifetime's journey from the days when she performed as a piano soloist with the Denver Businessmen's Symphony. Seattle-born and Denver-bred, she was influenced by her blind father, who emceed a local radio show ("a potpourri of philosophy, piano and good music," she recalls...
...Mirror of Tone. The concert-one trio each by Beethoven, Brahms and Schubert-displayed both the sweep of each man's virtuosity as a soloist and the perfect rapport the three share when playing together. Istomin hulked mightily over the keyboard to delve deep into the music with the sensitive phrasing that distinguishes his playing. Stern and Rose were so perfectly matched that Rose's 1662 Amati cello seemed at times the baritone voice of Stern's Guarnerius violin. In passages in which phrases are repeated alternately be tween them, each provides a mirror of the other...
Keep It Gala. It took nearly six years of prodding by Stern before all three mustered the time and determination to get together; each has a highly prosperous career as a soloist, and abandoning private schedules is costly. Now that the three are committed to each other, they plan to spare a month or so each year for work as a trio, making plans far in advance, insisting on ideal halls for chamber music, hand-picking the piano. "We want to keep it gala," says Istomin...
...through understanding of the music. Only occasionally did exaggerated rubato obscure a cadence or mar an elision. Her musicianship showed through especially in the pedalling of the second movement and throughout the cadenza of the first. The orchestra, despite an irresistable tendency to rush, supported her quite well. The soloist herself took command when the Adagio turned into an Andante in restoring the original tempo...