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Other new records of note: Bach's St. Matthew Passion, played by a Viennese orchestra, chorus and soloists under the direction of Hermann Scherchen (Westminster, 4 LPs); all ten of Beethoven's Violin & Piano Sonatas, played by Violinist Joseph Fuchs and Pianist Artur Balsam (Decca; 5 LPs); Wagner's complete Tristan and Isolde, with Kirsten Flagstad, Ludwig Suthaus and the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler (Victor...
...Violinist & the Pastry Cook. Two of the biggest are Chicago's Silvestri Art Manufacturing Co., which made the dolls for Lord & Taylor (opposite), and Manhattan's Staples-Smith Inc., which designed the Nativity scene for Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Between them, the two companies gross well over $2,000,000 a year, serve nearly 100 stores around the U.S. Silvestri specializes in composition mechanical dolls that cost up to $1,150 apiece ($18,000 for a complete set of 60) and can be dressed up to resemble a Viennese violinist or a French pastry cook...
...tedious practice sessions when correction is so necessary, Marion is devoted to retaining their interest. In overtones of Yugoslav he encourage the fumbling novice, "Ya, good! Good!", then pause and adds in a confidential voice, "but next time you must ..." To the clumsy he urges, "be smooth like the violinist--zipp, zipp, zipp!," and compares the unrelaxed fencer to a "medieval knight." His sterner nature emerges with the repeated mistakes of more experienced pupils. Those who become careless may get a sharp rap from his blade...
...more severe tastes, the Soviets also sent a young violinist named Igor Oistrakh. He played Beethoven's Violin Concerto with the London Philharmonic, and the critics approved to a man. The Times was relatively reserved, praising his "artistic integrity and surety of execution." The Daily Express' Cecil Smith, usually a hard man to please, went overboard: "Not since the piano playing of the 23-year-old Horowitz burst on Western ears 25 years ago has Russia given us so staggeringly gifted a young musician...
Igor Oistrakh, but the Russians were too busy for interviews. The main facts about Igor: he is the son of famed Soviet Violinist David Oistrakh (TIME, July...