Word: violin
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ISAAC STERN (Columbia). The violin concertos of Samuel Barber and Paul Hindemith test Stern's talents in contrasting ways. For Barber, the violin must gently caress the lush phrases and clearly sing the profusion of simple melodies. With Hindemith, the instrument becomes one of dark conflict. Stern is superbly in control of both, as is Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic...
...concerts last week at the Edinburgh Festival, he played Sibelius' Concerto in D Minor, followed by Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D. In the Sibelius piece, even the longest and most difficult runs executed at the highest speed had the clarity and order of a complex molecular structure. And as always, he seemed to toss it all off as if it were the easiest thing in the world. There is also something refreshing about his obvious delight in playing. Not for him is the agonized look that seems to be the accepted expression for most great violinists; instead...
Self-Made Mexican. Son of an iron and lumber magnate, Szeryng was raised in the Warsaw suburb of Zelazowa Wola, birthplace of Chopin. A child prodigy, he was packed off to Berlin at seven to study violin with the renowned teacher Carl Flesch, five years later entered the Sorbonne. The day after Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, Szeryng volunteered for the Polish Army. Fluent in seven languages, he was assigned to the Polish government-in-exile in Great Britain as a translator. In 1942, accompanying Polish Premier Wladyslaw Sikorski to Latin America in search of a home...
Today Szeryng plays the concert circuit ten months of the year, travels on a diplomatic passport as Mexico's official cultural ambassador. Not as flashy as the school of violin virtuosos that U.S. audiences are accustomed to hearing, Szeryng enjoys his greatest popularity in Europe. "He is a musician's musician," explains Rubinstein patriotically. "In the U.S., the masses go to concerts for entertainment. But real music lovers want emotion-great moments-which Szeryng's playing gives them." Real music lovers will have a chance to judge for themselves this October, when Szeryng will play with...
...Arnold Palmer still takes lessons from his dad, a teaching pro at Pennsylvania's Latrobe Country Club, and Jack Nicklaus polishes his game under the watchful eye of Jack Grout at Miami Beach's La Gorce Country Club.* "If you wanted to learn how to play the violin, you wouldn't go to Jascha Heifetz," explains Sobel. "You'd go to a violin teacher. The same thing holds true for golf...