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...Violinist Ruggiero Ricci appeared on the stage at Carnegie Hall for the first time dressed in a Little Lord Fauntleroy suit with flowing white bow tie and velvet kneepants. He was nine years old, and his hair flopped over his ears. With such classic equipment, he could scarcely have failed to make it as a prodigy-and he made it big. The more uninhibited critics, recalls Ricci. "called me the greatest violinist playing, which meant that I have had to fight Ricci ever since." Now 41, Ricci is still fighting Ricci. He seems to be doing nicely. During a lull...
...longtime admirers-Fritz Kreisler. who heard Ricci play as a child. Included were Sarasate's Malagueña and Zapateado, Kreisler's Liebesleid and Liebesfreud and La Gitana. Standing with a kind of Frank Sinatra slouch before the double microphones, tiny (5 ft. 4 in.) Violinist Ricci grasped his Guarnerius del Gesù fiddle in his short, square hands and produced a tone that was remarkable both for its control and its shading. He was at his best in the Sarasate Habañera and Jota Navarra-music that calls for the sort of flash and fire that...
...Inhibitions. Although Ricci has never quite overtaken the early critical estimate of Prodigy Ricci, his performances have earned him an honored place among the world's best violinists. "After Oistrakh," remarked an astonished Moscow critic last spring, "Ricci was designed by nature to play the violin." Ricci himself gives part credit for his style to his "Latin descent," is embarrassed that his passport still identifies him as Woodrow Wilson Rich, a name he picked up at birth after his onetime-trombonist father had decided to Anglicize the family name. Woodrow Wilson was presented with his first violin when...
Kratka, 35. uses either foreign orchestras or musicians recruited from such groups as NBC's Symphony of the Air. Musicians themselves are among the best customers. One violinist owns all the vio lin albums, has a habit of putting them on the record player after midnight, when he gets the urge to play but is unable to round up an orchestra. Kratka also sells briskly to schools, libraries, mental hospitals (where Dixieland is used for patient therapy) and to diplomats in remote areas. His most baffling customer: the man who wrote to request Bach's Sonatas for Unaccompanied...
Princeton's Valedictorian Frederic Kreisler, 21, a summa cum laude major in medieval history with a four-year average of A+, is a nephew of Violinist Fritz Kreisler, and himself an accomplished pianist. One professor calls him "intellectually and personally the most outstanding boy I ever met at Princeton." Fluent in French and German, he was top man at Pelham (N.Y.) Memorial High School, top freshman at Princeton, made Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year and won a Carnegie grant for summer research at the University of Vienna on his thesis. "The Coronation of Charlemagne" (grade: A+). Known...