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William Bergsma is an elfin-faced, cowlicked and unabashed young man who says of himself: "I first took up the violin, didn't practice. Then the viola, didn't practice that either. So I became a composer." He has practiced that. At 29, he has to his credit a ballet suite, Paul Bunyan, half a dozen short orchestral and choral works, and two string quartets. His second quartet, composed in 1944, won him a blessing from New York critics, a National Institute of Arts and Letters grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a job teaching composition at Manhattan...
Sonatas for Unaccompanied Violin. music seems to grow leaner with the yeas. between two excellent performances of the superb Sonata No. 1, Alexander Schneider's (Mercury, 1 side LP) is for those who prefer a hardness of tone and a rather blunt forthrightness; Tossy Spivakovsky (Columbia, 1 side LP) plays with more beauty of tone and slightly softer phrasing. Violinist Joseph Szigeti (Columbia, 1 side LP) has no competition in his performance of Sonata No. 5 (or, on the other side, in the Concerto No. 1, with the New Friends of Music Orchestra, Fritz Stiedry conducting). Recordings: good...
...literally true, as Biographer James Parton wrote of him, that at 32, only months before he wrote the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson "could calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try a cause, break a horse, dance a minuet, and play the violin...
...times of enormous stress his free-wheeling mind could shuttle between the gravest matters and his airiest interests. Writing to John Randolph on possible reconciliation with England in August 1775, he reminded him about a deal involving Randolph's fiddle: "I now send the bearer for the violin ... I beleive [sic] you had no case to her. If so, be so good as to direct Watt Lenox to get . . . coarse woolen to wrap her in, and then to pack her securely in a wooden...
Bach's often heard Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 opened the program. It was a pleasure to listen to this essentially chamber piece played in a relatively small room by a small group as Bach originally wrote it. Earl Ravenal handled the extremely difficult solo violin passage with great dexterity...