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Died. Albert Spalding, 64, world-famed American violinist; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. Chicago-born son of Sporting-Goods Millionaire James W. Spalding, he made his musical debut in Paris at the age of 16, became America's first internationally famed violin virtuoso. Spalding regularly toured the U.S. and Europe as a soloist, was the first American violinist ever to be invited to play with Paris' Conservatory Orchestra...
Bartok: Contrasts (Robert Mann, violin; Stanley Drucker, clarinet; Leonid Hambro, piano; Bartok). Three short Bartok movements-a fantastic little march, a bluesy interlude and a dazzling dance finale-provide an easy and agreeable introduction to the work of the modern Hungarian master. Performance: excellent...
August Wenzinger, Horatio Appleton Lamb Lecturer on Music this year, will perform on the viola da gamba. Mrs. Anne Gombosi, former member of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis will accompany him on her violin, and Mclville Smith, director of the Longy School of Music, will play the harpsichord...
Born in 1567, the son of a doctor in Cremona (where the Stradivari were later to make violins), Monteverdi was a child of the late Renaissance. He was taught the same rigid rules of church composition as Palestrina, but quickly showed revolutionary tendencies: his madrigals, which he began publishing at 20, were damned for their "illegal" chords. By the time of his death in 1643, he had discovered harmonies which might have given Wagner himself a turn, sizzled the Italian ear with its first violin tremolos, startled it with its first plucked strings, and helped set music on an entirely...
...Byrd Mass was followed by two suites for strings and continue, one by the 17th century English composer John Jenkins and the other by Francois Couperin. The pleasing, simply-constructed movements of the Jenkins were given a graceful rendition by Anne Gombosi, violin; August Wenzinger, a visiting lecturer from Switzerland; Stephen McGhee, viola da gamba and John Dvison, harpsichord. But the Couperin is quite a notch above the Jenkins musically, and Mr. Wenzinger's virtuoso performance further augmented the excellent impression it made. Because of the elaborate ornamental conventions of the period in which it was written, a great part...