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...world of the violin we have Sanford Allen (b. 1939), who entered the Juilliard School of Music at 10, and by 20 was accomplished enough to play as a substitute violinist in the New York Philharmonic. In 1962 he became the first full-time Black player in that orchestra. Over the years he gave occasional recitals, and in 1977 he courageously decided to give up his guaranteed income from the Philharmonic in favor of a career as a freelancer and soloist...
Allen shows what he can do on the fourth of nine disks that Columbia Records issued in its Black Composers Series, a project that the firm unfortunately seems to have discontinued. With the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, led by Black conductor Paul Freeman, Allen gives a stunning performance of the Violin Concerto (1962) by Black composer Roque Cordero (b. 1917), a native of Panama who for some years has been professor of music at Illinois State University...
...moves through a ternary slow movement to a rondo finale. He uses a 12-tone row, both forwards and backwards, but the piece is still easier to follow by ear than most serial works. Cordero's orchestration is so skillful that even the rambunctious finale never swamps the solo violin. Like its famous Alban Berg predecessor of 1936, this work is a rare masterpiece among serial violin concertos...
When not cradling a violin or wielding a tennis racquet, Stern can usually be found holding a telephone or two or three. (He has eleven of them in his Manhattan duplex.) If forced to spend a couple of hours at an airport, he finds a lounge or booth and places one long-distance call after another to his many friends, who range from a Who's Who of the concert world to Henry Kissinger, Dinah Shore, Arthur Miller and Jimmy Connors. Members of the Israel Philharmonic like to tease him about the three-minute orchestral introduction in the Beethoven...
Inspired by Mark Gottlieb of Olympia, Wash., who set a record for playing the violin under water, Japan has come up with an entire underwater orchestra, a first. To raise funds for a local charity, a man and a woman in Des Moines lovingly sat in tubs of vanilla pudding for 24 hr. 34 min. 20 sec., the only record ever set for a pudding sit- but one that will no doubt be challenged...