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Khachaturian: Violin Concerto (David Oistrakh, violinist, with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Gauk conducting; Mercury, 10 sides). An excellent recording of an energetic but empty piece, notable because it gives U.S. music lovers a first chance to hear one of the world's greatest living violinists. David Oistrakh, now 40, won an international competition for violinists in Brussels in 1937 (among the judges: Joseph Szigeti), has rarely been far out of Russia since...
Born. To Yehudi Menuhin, 32, American-born, internationally famed concert violinist, and second wife Diana Gould Menuhin, 34, British actress and ballet dancer: their first child (his third), a son; in Edinburgh, Scotland. Name: Gerrard. Weight...
...linked sweetness long drawn out, the last bright notes of a Haydn string quartet drifted out of the hall. The first violinist stood up, walked to the center of the University of California's Wheeler Hall stage, and paused for quiet to make an announcement. "Last night," he said, "one of the greatest artists of quartet music, Robert Maas, died.* We owe him a tremendous debt . . . our next number will be in his memory." Then the four fiddlers of the Griller String Quartet played "Consummatum Est" from Haydn's Seven Words of Christ on the Cross; they played...
Last week Violinist Griller had some news that he did not tell the audience in Wheeler Hall: for the next three years, chamber music students at the University of California could watch and learn from the Griller String Quartet at work. The Griller would be the university's first "quartet in residence...
Joseph Stalin, it appeared (not dialectics), was really calling the pitch in Soviet music. New York Herald Tribune Musicritic Virgil Thomson quoted an ex-violinist of the Moscow State Symphony: "Anyone acquainted with the . . . 'musical mixed salad' . . . tastes of Stalin will recognize a remarkable similarity between his personal predilections and the officially sponsored concepts." What was it like to play for the boss? "If he likes a performance, he smiles . . . When a performance does not please him, [he] turns his back . . . There can be no greater blow...