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Smiling but Silent. On opening night, however, the wondering quickly turned to wonder. Seated at the foot of the altar in the Gothic Saint-Pierre Church, Schneider, Serkin and Casals played Beethoven's Trio in E-Flat Major with a passion that made no concession to age. Casals' luminous tone filled the vast church like waves of sunlight, touching the life's breath of the music. At concert's end, the audience of 1,000 rose from the hardwood pews smiling but silent-the only tribute allowed in the church. Later, when the old man walked...
...devoid of commercialism and pervaded by an air of easy familiarity. During the day, concertgoers chatted with the performers on the street, dropped in on rehearsals to turn pages for the players and to delight in Russia's Oistrakh and America's Katchen arguing about a Schubert trio in German: "What difference does it make, Julius, whether we play it at your tempo or mine? We are going to have to play it the way the master tells us." As it worked out, the moderate tempo they agreed upon was much too slow for the cellist...
Afterward, Marge told everybody, the Coppolinos were a tower of strength. The trio started attending church together. An amateur artist, Marge began painting Carl's portrait. Neighbors began joking about "Dr. Strangelove" and friend, but the widow assured a neighbor that she thought of Carl "like my son." Early last year Marge decided to move to Florida, bought land adjacent to the Gulf Coast resort of Sarasota-and told acquaintances that she had induced her friends to head South with her. In April 1965, the Coppolinos settled in a white stucco home on fashion able Longboat Key off Sarasota...
...final bonanza, the Freedom Stingers, the Chad Mitchel Trio, and Ozzie Davis will sing to the political enthusiasts
Trumpet Player Chet Baker, still waiting at Los Angeles Airport at the hour his trio was due to perform in a nightclub near San Francisco, took his horn into a phone booth, piped his third of the music 350 miles north by wire and loudspeaker. A pretty young girl, pleading with a Chicago ticket clerk for a flight to a San Francisco wedding (her own), was surprised to hear the man in line behind her say: "Funny, I've got to get to San Francisco for a divorce-my own." Both got aboard...