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NEWTON COLLEGE CHAPEL. David Mitchell playing the Casavant organ, assisted by violinist Edgar Edwards. Works of Bach, Dupre, Lubeck, Mozart, and Schroeder. April...
NEWTON COLLEGE CHAPEL. David Mitchell playing the Casavant organ, assisted by violinist Edgar Edwards. Works of Bach, Dupre, Lubeck, Mozart, and Schroeder. April...
Fifteen years ago, violinist Nigel Kennedy blew hot air up the skirts of the somewhat dowdy old lady that is classical music with his recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. He played sections fast, slow, ornamented. He played his own cadenzas. He had a punk’s hairstyle. He shot a music video in which the entire orchestra wore sunglasses during the “Summer” movement...
Across town from Sandor's Manhattan apartment, Robert Mann, 83, fiddles away in preparation for his upcoming tour. Mann's 51 years as first violinist in the renowned Juilliard Quartet now seem like a musical warm-up for the multifaceted career he has pursued since he retired from the group in 1997. At an upcoming concert that typifies his new approach to performing, Mann will conduct, play chamber music, perform on violin and viola and debut his own composition--all on the same program. "When you love your art, it's easy to keep going," he says. "There's always...
Mann, on the other hand, thanks modern medicine and healthy practicing for the longevity of his career. He says he may be the only professional violinist still performing after undergoing two rotator-cuff surgeries. The great Jascha Heifetz ended his concert career when tendon weakness in his right arm prevented him from bowing properly. These days, medical specialists have myriad techniques for keeping performers in playing shape even as their bodies age and muscles weaken. Musicians with dystonia, for example, who often suffer from muscle spasms, now receive experimental new movement and drug therapies...