Word: violiniste
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Hands off, in fact, has been the production policy from the outset. Both Jersey Standard and the producers have guaranteed the performers autonomy and artistic freedom; hence they have been able to line up the Metropolitan Opera's George London, Violinist Isaac Stern, Guitarist Andres Segovia and Cellist Pablo Casals for subsequent concerts. Dorothy Stickney will do readings from Edna St. Vincent Millay. Margaret Leighton will read Dorothy Parker: A Telephone Call, Dusk Before Fireworks, The Lovely Leave. Britain's Michael Flanders and Donald Swann will do the same, somewhat intellectual variety show they scored with on Broadway...
...David at all. The real artist was Constance Marie Charpentier, an obscure but obviously admiring David follower. Last week, David was in the news again. In the scholarly French review Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Dealer Georges Wildenstein proclaimed that another painting attributed to David - a portrait of the violinist Antonio Bartolommeo Bruni, which the Frick Museum bought in 1952 - was actually by another female admirer...
...Davin. the daughter of a geographer and the goddaughter of a marquise, presided over small dinner parties that artists and musicians, now long forgotten, loyally attended. She exhibited fairly often, was always listed in catalogues as a pupil of David. But had she even known the violinist named Bruni? For the answer to that, Wildenstein went to the diaries of a certain Mme. Moitte, one of Mme. Davin's cattier friends. On Feb. 3, 1806, Mme. Moitte went to Mme. Davin's for dinner. She reported that the wine was inferior, that the fried cakes were undercooked...
...good of the Paganini Quartet to retrieve Ginestera, currently Argentina's leading composer, from the limbo to which serious Latin American composers are relegated. Ginestera's Quartet No. 1 (1950) attempts, according to Henri Temianka, first violinist, to evoke ancient Aztec and Incan civilizations. It combines the performance effects of Ravel and Debussy, the rhythmic drive and insistence of Bartok, and a peculiar harmonic clarity which could be interpreted as simple-mindedness. Both the first and second movements, in spite of constant, rapid, and vigorous rhythms, remain static on D. Open fifths, played tutti, reinforce the strength of the rhythms...
...Observer scattered, according to no detectable pattern, a clutch of articles, feature stories, puzzles, pictures, cartoons, weather maps and poetry (including all 60 lines of John Greenleaf Whittier's Barbara Frietchie). Two stories on Pope John XXIII ran on separate pages (4 and 26); an obituary on Violinist Fritz Kreisler appeared on page 8, an obituary on French Artist Andre Lhote on page 15. Readers anxious to discover how the new paper would deal with U.S. culture were soon disillusioned: the Observer begged the question. Theater and book reviews were shot through with a rehash of newspaper and magazine...