Word: violiniste
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...many violinists, success means polishing the personal image and sticking to proven works from the standard repertory. Even his best friends admit that Violinist Paul Zukofsky does not have much of a personal image. He is a sad-eyed, dour, defensive loner who will run from a circle of party chatterers rather than make small talk. When he emerges from the wings to perform, it is not with the elegant stride of a Milstein or the open-armed warmth of a Stern. It is with a rapid, open-toed, Chaplinesque shuffle. When Zukofsky plays, his music often consists...
...years, that was one of the music world's favorite jokes. Alas, no one will tell it any more: the Budapest String Quartet has apparently decided to call it a career. Its three oldest members-First Violinist Josef Roisman, 68, Violist Boris Kroyt, 71, and Cellist Mischa Schneider, 64-are in poor health. Although there has been no formal announcement, they have agreed not to perform in public any more. Mischa's brother Alexander, 60, the second violinist, thinks that that is probably just as well. "Most artists play past their prime," he says. "How long could...
...year is 1971, and the scene is Bergman's favorite symbol: an island off the coast. There, a violinist named Jan Rosenberg (Max von Sydow) and his wife Eva (Liv Ullman) cower in their farmhouse, waiting out a civil war that rages on the mainland. It is a truism that in many childless marriages one of the couple assumes the role of the baby. In the Rosenbergs' case, it is Jan, cosseted and petted by Eva during his incessant tantrums and irrational fears. Infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering, afflicted with a bad heart and a sick psyche, Jan lives...
...DEBUT with the Boston Symphony in 1948 was less the product of her own initiative. She was playing at the time with Ruth Passelt, violinist and wife of the associate conductor. The orchestra was in Cleveland that winter when Lukas Foss, the scheduled pianist, was suddenly called away. Miss Vosgerchian was given twelve hours to begin rehearsals. "No woman yet had played in the Symphony," Miss Vosgerchian recalls, "so Koussevitsky insisted I first play in front of Lukas...
This week West Berlin's Singakade-mie performs the Christmas oratorio with members of the Radio Symphony Orchestra. In London, Composer Benjamin Britten conducts three cantatas for the BBC from St. Andrew's Church in Holborn. In Manhattan, Violinist and Conductor Alexander Schneider completes a two-concert series of cantatas and concertos at Carnegie Hall. And in New York, as in other major capitals, the coming weeks will see a performance of Bach's undoubted masterpiece, the B-Minor Mass-a work that he began as a tribute to the Catholic King of Poland, but which...