Word: violiniste
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...premiére of Paul Hindemith's Sonata for Alto Horn and Piano, followed it with a Ruff-Mitchell composition titled Fugue for a Jazz Trio. The club features a regular string quartet from Yale, and will draw heavily on the talents of such Yale faculty members as Violinist Howard Boatwright, Pianist Seymour Fink. Like their Cleveland counterparts, Ruff and Mitchell feel that the relaxed atmosphere of a club makes for ideal listening. "In a club," says Willie Ruff, "you never get the guy who sits down stiffly and says, 'O.K., so thrill...
...Special Soul. Trained for a piano virtuoso's career, Moore originally thought that an accompanist was "a sort of caddie who carried the violinist's fiddle." But when he was 24, he accompanied Tenor John Coates, became fascinated by the challenge of fitting music to text, and soon decided that accompanists "have an infinitely richer life than the soloist." Today he adds: "Even if I had the technique and virtuosity of Horowitz or Rubinstein, I would prefer to do what I am doing...
...beginning, nothing could have been further from Florence Allen's mind than a career in law. She shared the family interest in music and at first longed to be a performer, perhaps a violinist. Later her interest switched to musicology. Living in Germany at the turn of the century, she became music editor of the American paper then published in Berlin. When she returned to the States, she served as music editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer while studying for her M.A. at Western Reserve University...
...Leningrad's most distinctive feature is the way in which it separates the various sections of the orchestra: instead of aiming for a thickly blended sound. Conductor Mravinsky emphasizes differences in coloration. The tempos, even in romantic composers, are brisk, martial-and not to every taste. Said Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, after hearing the Leningrad play Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony: "I never want to hear the Fifth played again by anyone else." But the London Observer's critic, after hearing Tchaikovsky's melancholy Sixth (the "Pathétique") given a robust, uplifting performance, demurred: "I cannot bring...
Future performances include organist Andrea Marchal, July 27, and folksingers Oscar Brand and Joan Baez, Aug. 4. In last week's program, violinist Ruth Posselt and pianist Luise Vosgerchian presented a program of four sonatas...