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...best news Bavarian-born Egk has had in a long time. He got his start in 1926 when lie showed some pieces to Composer Kurt Weill, who recommended him for a job composing bits for a radio station. Nine years later Egk wrote an opera, The Magic Violin, which has become part of the regular repertory in German opera houses. Impressed, the Berlin State Opera hired him as a conductor. Under the Nazis, Egk's career throve pleasantly enough, although he got a stiff reprimand in 1938 for "working along the lines of 'Kulturbolschewist' Kurt Weill...
...weeks before the running, the odds were on the Russians to sweep the field in Belgium's first postwar revival of its violin international-the Concours Eugène Ysaÿe, this year renamed for Queen Mother Elisabeth. There was a notable precedent : brilliant Soviet Violinist David Oistrakh (TIME, Aug. 2, 1948) won the grand prize in the first contest in 1937. Moreover, the simple fact that the Russians entered meant that they were confident their violinists were good enough...
Bartok: Sonata No. 1 (Isaac Stern, violin; Alexander Zakin, piano; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Making his Bartok bow on records, Fiddler Stern gets forcefully to the heart of this difficult sonata (1921) without losing his beautiful tone. Recording: excellent...
...music deserves a good performance, he has not confined himself to Harvard-Radcliffe material. Non-Cambridge talent constitutes an important part of the organization, and nearly all the trombone players are conservatory students. He has even procured the services of a professional violinist (Ruth Posselt) to play Hindemith's Violin Concerto for the second concert...
When the Halprins moved to Philadelphia last year, Diana enrolled in the Curtis Institute, traded her violin for a quarter-sized one. Her practice sessions are frequent but seldom last more than 20 minutes. Games are invented to keep her interest, e.g., Diana shows her dolls the correct way to play, then plays for them herself. For next season's concert, Diana hopes to be able to handle a half-size violin, perform a movement from a Mozart or Mendelssohn concerto...