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Kissable Age. Father Leopold Mozart was a musician-a violinist and court composer to the Archbishop of Salzburg. Even so, he thought it precocious that "Wolferl" at the age of three should "bawl with disappointment" when his small fingers struck a discord on the clavier. At four, Wolferl scribbled down his first clavier concerto; at five, before he had had a single violin lesson, he played second fiddle in a trio. "One need not have learnt in order to play second fiddle," he informed the grownups...
Benito Mussolini used to spend odd hours sawing on a fiddle and lamenting the dictator's fate that kept him from becoming "a great concert violinist." This week one of the hottest jazz pianists in a land of few jazz piano players, a musician billed as Romano Full, will make his public debut with a quintet at San Remo's International Jazz Festival. His full name: Romano Mussolini, 28, Il Duce's youngest son. Unlike his father, who could read music, Romano is musically illiterate but plays by ear better than Il Duce did by note. Romano...
Last week Conductor James Robertson led the Wichita Symphony in its third concert of the season. The program ranged from the almost-modern Sibelius Concerto in D Minor (with 28-year-old Violinist Aaron Rosand) to Rimsky-Korsakov's well-worn Scheherazade-which miffed a few of Wichita's growing number of musical sophisticates, but wowed the big audiences. The performances sounded as rich and bold as a big-city orchestra...
Much of Wichita's musical revolution was achieved by Symphony Manager Alan Watrous, 55, who believes that a community must grow its own culture ("I hate that word, but what the devil else can you call it?") rather than buy it outside. A violinist and onetime music teacher, Manager Watrous has a special culture-growing formula: get the symphony and school system to work together. A string quartet of symphony players gives 80 concerts a year in schoolrooms. Twice a year, the orchestra plays student concerts at the rate of four a day-no buses shuttle one crowd...
...years -when he made headlines because he stood duty as a fire fighter in Leningrad-he completed his highly touted Symphony No. 7, which in fact was a ragtag and feeble-though thunderous-work. But Shostakovich's new Concerto is strong and well-knit-particularly as played by Violinist Oistrakh...