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...Perlea acquired some of his operatic versatility clandestinely. Son of an "incredibly rich" land-owning Rumanian father and a German mother, in school he used to study scores instead of his Latin, hiding them on his lap in the classroom. He studied piano, cello and violin ("The piano is the instrument I play least badly"), later studied composition at the Munich Conservatory. By the time he was 21 he was conducting at the Leipzig Opera House; at 29 he was general manager of the Bucharest Opera. In 1944, the Nazis interned both Jonel and his writer wife for refusing...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Violin soloist: Joseph Szigeti...
...slow movement harmonically and rhythmically as dull as dishwater. The fast finale oompah-oompahed along in Russian style until about 30 bars from the end. Only then, for about a dozen bars, did listeners hear the powerfully dissonant Prokofiev they had known in the Scythian Suite and the first violin concerto. After that the Sixth Symphony oompahed its way to an ending. In the U.S. it might be panned, but it would not be banned...
...medical student he plays second violin in the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra...
...quartet consists of Joseph Roisman, First Violin, Jac Gorodetzky, Second Violin, Mischa Schneider, Violioncello, and Boris Kroyt, Viola...