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...daughter might be a prodigy when he heard her picking out radio tunes on a toy piano at the age of two. He tested her further, discovered she had absolute pitch.* Also, "she was really born with a fiddle hand," broad and dexterous. At three, Diana got her first violin, a four-ounce affair, one-eighth adult size, and began taking lessons from her father...
...court wearing ordinary evening dress and at state functions smoked the big underslung pipe that became his trademark. A busy man all his life, he dabbled in projects from Chicago's 1933 World's Fair to California's Forest Lawn Cemetery, wrote music for his violin (his Melody is still available on records), was heard from in recent years only on his birthdays, when he gave brusque statements to the press. One of his last: "I'm an old man. No one wants to hear what I have...
Barbara Sorenson and Russell Ames then played another period piece, Leclair's Violin-Harpsichord Sonata, marred by poor balance between the instruments, Miss Sorenson's technique is excellent, but her very rich tone was not at all suited to the delicate quality of the music...
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (David Oistrakh, violinist, with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, A. V. Gauk conducting; 2 sides LP). Surely one of the great among modern violinists, 42-year-old Oistrakh combines in his playing the suavity of Heifetz and the depth and penetration of Szigeti. Most curious item in another album of Oistrakh favorites: Stephen Foster's Swanee River...
Ravel: Trio in A Minor (Artur Rubinstein, piano; Jascha Heifetz, violin; Gregor Piatigorsky, cello; Victor, I side LP). The most interesting of the three trios (the other two: Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn) recorded by the famed artists who formally combined their talents for the first time at Chicago's Ravinia Park (TiME, Aug. 22, 1949). The playing in all three is sensitively superb. Recording: excellent...