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...Samuel and Joseph Zimbler appeared together in Boccherini's C major Quintet. Once again, the music was routine; the cleverly-scored last movement was the only part that showed marks of inspiration. The ensemble sounded best in this work: the instruments blended well together, except for Wolfe Wolfinsohn's violin. Wolfinsohn, after playing extremely well for the first two concerts, finally had a bad night. His tone was squeeky, and he did little more than hit the right notes...
...Bach's Quintet in E flat for flute, oboe, violin, viola, and continuo concluded the program. The combination of woodwinds and strings resulted in some unique tonal effects, but the work itself seemed not worth the trouble...
...year-old copy turned up at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week in the hands of Musician Francis Lantos, a Hungarian-born refugee. Lantos' countryman, Composer Tibor Serly (who deciphered and scored Bartok's famed Viola Concerto), had written his plaintive Chamber Folk Music for violin, piano and tarogato in 1948, but until recently had found no one who could make the instrument sing. Lantos, who broadcasts over
...doubt that its reviewers have conscientiously taken Music I, that they are eternally aware of thematic structure, of the "Middle Period" in Beethoven, of the beauties of pre-Baroque music; let them also discover that the function of a music critic is not to review the Beethoven Violin Concerto, but to review its performance...
Hilsberg got his early violin training in the same St. Petersburg prodigy factory that turned out Heifetz and Milstein. But he has no regrets that he did not contiue a career of concert fiddling. "I could Vt stand up there and play again and again the Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Brahms [concerti]. That is like being a painter and being handed a palette with only a few colors. Conducting, you have all the colors you could possibly want...