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Ives' father George was a bandmaster and, until the flowering of his son's talent, Danbury's leading musical citizen. George rigged a contrivance (24 violin strings spread across a clothespress) that produced quarter tones. Determined to stretch his son's musical ear, he had him sing Swanee River in the key of E-flat while Dad accompanied in the key of C. Small wonder that Charles the composer would go on to use polytonality and polyrhythms long before those techniques emerged in the works of Stravinsky and other 20th century musical giants. As Composer Aaron...
Died. David Oistrakh, 66, Soviet violin genius; of a heart attack while on tour; in Amsterdam. Raised in the musical hothouse of Odessa's Jewish community, Wunderkind Oistrakh rose rapidly through the conservatories and concert halls of the Soviet Union. In the cold war November of 1955, Oistrakh's first Carnegie Hall recital melted American critics. A short (5 ft. 6 in.), pudgy, businesslike performer, Oistrakh produced music with a luminous, flawless tone. In his last years, he grew into a first-rank conductor as well. On hearing of Oistrakh's death, American Violinist Yehudi Menuhin...
Lynn Chang, fresh from his spectacular first prize in the Paganini, and Richard Kogan, fresh from his spectacular performance with the Bach Society, play the Kreutzer and Brahms's 3rd violin sonata at the Gardner Museum Sunday afternoon--but they'll be playing a similar concert next week at Sanders, closer to home. Also of special interest is Poulenc's Babar the Elephant, for piano and narrator, Saturday evening at Currier House...
Marie Rhines, violin, and Eugene Bourque, gultar play Bourque, guitar play country fiddle music. Free. Sunday...
...been removed in the mid-'60s. But to install a new console and set of pipes would have meant tearing out the stage walls and changing their shape. To Carnegie's executive director, Julius Bloom, that would have been as risky as prying apart a Stradivarius violin. What...