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Among today's rich blend of young violin virtuosos, it would take a mouthful as well as an earful to match the likes of Itzhak Perlman, 21, Young Uck Kim, 19, and Pinchas Zuckerman, 18. Their close friend and former classmate scores high on all counts. His name is James Oliver Buswell...
...line age. James I was president of Wheaton College in Illinois; James II was a Presbyterian missionary; James III is a professor of anthropology at St. Louis University. When Young James's parents moved from Wheaton to New York, he studied with Ivan Galamian-America's foremost violin teacher-whose students included his "competition" and "closest colleagues," Itzhak, Pinchas and Young...
Understatement was the dominant note of the violin and piano recital presented by Tison Street and Tonu Kalam Tuesday night at Quincy House. Street's mellow tone, meticulous phrasing, and polished technique served as a transparent medium for the expression of every nuance of the music; Tonu Kalam's accompaniment was equally controlled, if the least bit more rodust. As a combination, they were nearly flawless, freely molding the music into the shape they desired without intruding between the music and the audience...
...tsung was a venerated musician in China and the composer of some 24 works for the violin, piano and orchestra, including a propagandistic Longing for Home that became the signature tune for the regular Red broadcasts beamed at Taiwan. He was at peace with the Red regime until last June, when he and some 500 other cultural leaders were caught in the net of "thought reform," as part of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Chinese army officers forced Ma and his colleagues to clean toilets and break stones in the morning, study the thoughts of Mao Tse-tung and write...
Bartók left Hungary and eventually died in New York City in 1945. His work was neglected during his lifetime, but the compositions-notably his six quartets, the violin concerto and Concerto for Orchestra-are now deservedly regarded as masterworks of the century...