Word: trill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four of the pianists do the arranging. Each keeps in mind the special talents of the other three. Russian-born Vladimir ("Vee") Padwa, who filled a vacancy in the Quartet in 1942, is the trill expert; Garner likes to handle special tonal colors; Edson is famed for what the others call his "light delicate touch." Viennese Frank Mittler, who looks like a concert version of Actor Frank Fay, quips: "I do the 'dramatic pauses...
Mozart: Concerto No. 4 for Horn, K. 495 (Dennis Brain, horn, with the Hallé Orchestra; Columbia, 4 sides). Brain gets brightly through this exhilarating work, with an occasional overblown trill but nary a burble. Recording: good...
Vladimir Horowitz owes his enormous following to the most amazingly fleet, powerful and accurate fingers in the pianistic world. He can trill with the relentless evenness of a mechanical drill. He can rip off a scale of octaves with a glittering finish that few of his contemporaries can even approach. His performances invariably crackle with electric virtuosity...
While the famed Budapest Quartet played compositions by Schumann and Haydn, a packed house listened with hushed attention, savored each trill of the viola, each violinistic vibration. Many of the audience were well-known Manhattan musicians who had dropped in for a quiet taste of musicians' music. Many others were concert-hardened music lovers whom only the caviar of two violins, a viola and a cello could drag from their homes on a pleasant afternoon. But nearly all of them were regular patrons to whom the New Friends' concerts are a weekly ritual...
...Frida S. Bucky, a Bach minuet for an encore. His able accompanist-pretty Mme. Gaby Casadesus, wife of Concert Pianist Robert Casadesus (unpronounceable, rhymes roughly with "has a canoe")-rippled discreetly at the piano. Dr. Einstein proved that he could play a slow melody with feeling, turn a trill with elegance, jigsaw on occasion. The audience applauded warmly. Fiddler Einstein smiled his broad and gentle smile, glanced at his watch in fourth-dimensional worriment, played his encore, peered at the watch again, retired. The refugee children stood to get about...