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Concert style comes easily to English-born Pianist McPartland. She studied harmony, counterpoint, violin and piano at London's famed Guildhall School of Music in her teens. But all the while she was listening to records of Jazz Pianists...
Edinburgh has featured a three-century capsule history of violin music this year, so it was only fitting that Italy, home of the violin, should send Gioconda de Vito, along with the string-strong Rome Symphony Orchestra, the Virtuosi di Roma, and Conductors Vittorio Gui and Fernando Previtali.* De Vito and her countrymen have been among the hits of the festival...
Violinist de Vito, a handsome, erect woman with grey hair and dark eyes, was opening-night soloist. On the concert stage, she showed her Latin dash at once, tucking her violin under her chin with a flourish, then working both hands in the air to limber them before attacking the music. Her tone had none of the acid brilliance of a Heifetz, but in roundness and warmth resembled Kreisler's. She scorned fireworks or virtuosity. "She is an artist," said one De Vito fan, "not a virtuoso." In the Vivaldi concerto last week her violin was warm and passionate...
Died. Jacques Thibaud, 72, famed French violin virtuoso; in an airline crash near Barcelonnette in the French Alps. Ardent Patriot Thibaud fought as an infantryman in World War I, and before and during World War II turned down all offers to play in Hitler's Germany. In 1947, still spry and healthy, he made his last U.S. appearance with the New York Philharmonic, devoted most of his last years to encouraging a new generation of young violinists and pianists...
Villa-Lobos: Trio for Violin, Viola & Cello (Members of the New York Quartet; Columbia). Whether he uses a full orchestra or limits himself to a mere three instruments, Villa-Lobos pours out ideas and melody as lavishly as rain in the jungles of his native Brazil. The trio teems with strong rhythm and ear-twisting changes; the three strings sometimes sound as rich as an orchestra...