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...zestful. "Taking a Chance on Love," contributed a major part to the worst program presented in Cambridge this season by the Boston symphony orchestra. Described by its perpetrator as "having certain earmarks of the sonata form without being written in that form at all," his Concerto for violin and orchestra was a meaningless mass of dissonances which effectively disguised the technical ability of the soloist, Miss Ruth Posselt. The allegro molto seemed to lack any structural form and wandered aimlessly through a series of cacophonous variations on the first subject. The second movement, valse, combined an absurdly technical display...
...famed boy-prodigy violinist Ruggiero Ricci)* and his cellist brother George Washington Rich. Wood Wilson Rich (who has developed a soldierly liking for hot dogs) sits in the middle of the second row of violinists, fiddles such Santa Ana numbers as Jive Bomber on his $3,000 Lorenzo Storione violin...
Glib, wild-haired Musicomedian Danny Kaye, working like a turkey gobbler, held up the auction's prize piece. It was not precious. It was a curio: Comic Jack Benny's violin, "Old Love In Bloom"-a $75 imitation Amati. Everyone present knew that only a war could have persuaded Benny to part with the old prop which had provided him with half his gags for the last 20 years. Before anyone could make a bid an attendant rushed up to Auctioneer Kaye with a letter. He opened it and gulped: "I have...
...long been widely regarded as the greatest Auer pupil. He has long been closely trailed, in the opinion of most critics, by dark, solemn, boyish-looking Nathan Milstein, 38. So self-effacing and publicity-shy is Nathan Milstein that, despite 13 years of U.S. touring, few people except violin enthusiasts know who he is. Last week, after a crowded recital in Carnegie Hall, critics as usual gave him the highest salutes...
Short, impassive Milstein fully seizes such melodious, bravura opportunities as the Tchaikovsky and Max Bruch concertos (both of which he has recorded for Columbia). But he is also among the most sensitive living interpreters of Beethoven's and Bach's violin music. To aging Violinist Fritz Kreisler (see cut) he is the greatest of today's younger generation of violinists. Unlike most Russian fiddlers, he had a wealthy father (a wool importer). Milstein was born in Odessa, was sent to the Imperial Conservatory at the age of eleven. The revolution stopped his violin lessons, but he went...