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DIED. Leonid Kogan, 58, slight "aristocrat of the violin," cherished by worldwide audiences for his poker-face pyrotechnics and the silken refinement of his playing; of causes and in a location not announced by Soviet officials. A prodigy who burst into the international spotlight at age 27 by winning the 1951 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels, Kogan's flawless but aloof technique could on occasion produce bloodless interpretations. A Jew who denied that Moscow was guilty of anti-Semitic discrimination, he publicly criticized dissidents like Andrei Sakharov...
Elliott Carter: The Early Music (CRI). The cerebral composer has his roots in the folksy American idiom of Ives and Copland, as this disc surprisingly shows. Elgar: Violin Concerto (Deutsche Grammophon). Itzhak Perlman triumphs in Elgar's most restrained major work...
...when she started a four-month stand at Greenwich Village's jazz club the Cookery, it may have been the best ever. Or, as she puts it in Workin' Man, a song she wrote herself: "There's plenty of good tunes, honey, left in an old violin...
...mark is a penchant for insipid shock value (a make-out scene in a morgue) and a sentimental streak as wide as an emergency ward. When James Coco and Doris Roberts appeared last week as two street derelicts, they seemed to bring everything in their ragtag baggage but a violin and a cup. Roberts, facing the amputation of both feet because her frozen toes had become gangrenous, was forced into a literally incredible choice between dismemberment, Coco and death that not even Ben Casey could have treated successfully...
Faculty Chamber Concert Ray De-Voll, tenor, John Heiss, flute. Laurence Lesser, Cello, Victor Rosenbaum, piano Enc Rosenblith, Violin and Patncia Zander, piano; music of Haydn, Heiss Faure and Dvorak, Jordan Hall. 290 Huntington Avenue, Thursday...