Word: violiniste
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...violinist who will be performing in three of next week's events explained Bach's sustained popularity. "He has an inner intensity that you can't get when you're falling away in more romantic pieces. It's purely--there's not a superfluous element in it," she said. "It's not so much that he makes the simple complex as the complex simple...
...conductor of one of the country's greatest orchestras, he cut a decidedly unglamorous figure. "I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist," he would say with typical self-effacement. "I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play." His businesslike podium manner and his reliable but unspectacular interpretations of the standard repertory caused many to underestimate him. But in 44 years, the longest music directorship in American history, Eugene Ormandy led the Philadelphia Orchestra to a height of tonal splendor that...
When he took over in 1938, the stocky, diminutive (5-ft. 5-in.) Hungarian- born conductor (real name: Jeno Blau) was an unlikely candidate for a daunting task. His father, a Budapest dentist and an amateur violinist, put a fiddle in his son's hands when the child was four, and for a time Ormandy seemed destined for the life of a touring virtuoso. Stranded in America after a promised concert tour failed to materialize, he was nearly penniless when he drifted into New York City's Capitol Theater and landed a job in the pit orchestra in 1921. Within...
DIED. Efrem Zimbalist, 94, Russian-born violinist of high technical polish and emotional understatement, a considerable composer of songs and chamber music and a musical administrator and teacher who for 27 years, until 1968, headed Philadelphia's Curtis Institute; in Reno. He was the father and grandfather, respectively, of TV Actors Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Stephanie Zimbalist...
...takeoff point for a complex violin concerto that lasts about 35 minutes. Atonal passages mingle freely with tonal ones as the theme is atomized and then reconstructed in reverse; the modern orchestrational device of flutter-tonguing for flutes and brass is complemented by traditionally virtuosic writing for the solo violinist. Gubaidulina, 53, also evokes her Russian predecessors Stravinsky and Prokofiev, most strikingly in a passage of glissandi string harmonics that recalls The Firebird. By Western standards, Offertorium may be tame, but given the governmental restrictions on the stylistic range of Soviet music, it shows Gubaidulina to be a fresh, challenging...