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...While in San Francisco, a leading critic called the debut of violinist Tossy Spivakovsky as the greatest since that, 30 years...
...orchestra stumbled on some of Britten's rocky rhythms, Conductor Cooper slapped his score with his baton, cried out: "No, no, it is not wrong. I am like you, gentlemen. At first I thought it was wrong . . . you will change your minds." Most already had. Muttered one violinist, tapping his temple: "It's good, it's very good...
Bartó:k: Violin Sonata No. 2-Roumanian Dances (Tossy Spivakovsky, violin; Artur Balsam, piano; Concert Hall Society, 6 sides). Bartok had just made his final break with musical orthodoxy when he wrote this sonata (1922). Violinist Spivakovsky is the man whose brilliant playing recently set San Francisco talking about Bartok's music (TIME, Jan. 26). Recording (on Vinylite): excellent...
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (Erica Morini, violin, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Désiré Defauw conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Perhaps the best recorded version, yet of Tchaikovsky's familiar work, played by the leading U.S. woman violinist. Recording: good...
...Francisco Chronicle's Critic Alfred Frankenstein couldn't wait to get to his typewriter. After glowing words for Violinist Spivakovsky,* Frankenstein wrote: "This is conceivably the greatest violin concerto since Brahms . . . noble, rich and splendid . . . blazing display music for [a] soloist to conquer...