Word: violiniste
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...introduction to Mahler. Bruno Walter's 23-year-old classic recording is rechanneled for stereo, with less bass than the original mono, but more polish in the middles and highs. Those who want a modern recording will like Kubelik's lithe and luminous version. The interpretation by Violinist-turned-Conductor Oistrakh is, unfortunately, unsympathetic and at times eccentric...
...when he was 14 at the time of his first lesson? His first lesson as a teacher, that is. When he talks about his childhood in Moscow, he says only that he was the son of an Armenian cotton merchant, a shy boy who wanted to be a concert violinist. But after his teacher sent him a ten-year-old pupil of his own, Galamian discovered that he had an even deeper instinct for teaching. By the time he settled in Paris at the age of 21, his lessons were so much in demand that he had no time...
...astringent, from cantabile to martellato, Mr. Buswell overexercised most of the themes with an unvarying weightiness. One notable exception was the elegiac close of the slow movement. Mr. Buswell played with proper aggressiveness in the Magyar uprisings and heroic cadential moments, but has yet to attain a master violinist's inevitable subtlety in place of gratuitous exhibitionism. He lacked a master's shaded touch in the scrupulous relaxation which informs Bartok's modal songs. His style last evening is best described as consummate-nerveless...
...that I'm afraid of heights," says Violinist Nathan Milstein. "Not even that I am terrified of accidents. It's harder to define. I've flown three times in my life, and I was absolutely miserable every minute. I can't breathe, feel time is suspended, and there I am-alone with my anguish...
Married. Erich Leinsdorf, 56, music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1962; and Vera Graff, 33, Brazilian-born violinist; both for the second time (he divorced his wife of 28 years last May); in Albany...