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...precocious age of 17 she became a Metropolitan Opera diva. At that point, pert little Patrice Munsel thought her career was dead ahead down a straight & narrow path. She would dutifully trill her way through all the Met's coloratura roles, and by the time she was a creaky 25, "I would know it all, retire, get married and start having children." She is 25 now, and neither retired, married nor creaky. But she has learned that, "starting as young as I did, your career is apt to take a funny turn...
...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...