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...start a music festival!" is a cocktail-party phrase that carries some of the same heady excitement that "Let's start a magazine!" did a generation ago. In 1953, Jascha Rushkin, a violinist with Toscanini's NBC Symphony, whispered the words into the ear of Metropolitan Opera Baritone John Brownlee. In time, facts were added: 1) some three-quarter million people visit New York's Catskill Mountains every summer; 2) a Catskills civic association pledged to buy $100,000 worth of tickets for a five-week festival; 3) the former NBC Symphony, now famed as the Symphony...
...soft spot in its heart for Russian musicians. Over the years it has made heroes of such men as Rachmaninoff, Horowitz, Heifetz and Stravinsky, and they in turn have made the U.S. their home. Today there is another generation of Russian virtuosos. The best of them, Violinist David Oistrakh, 47, and Pianist Emil Gilels, 38, have been sweeping through Europe in recent years, but no top Soviet artist has appeared in the U.S. since the end of World...
...major policy shift, and he promptly opened negotiations with the Soviet embassy in Washington to import Russian musicians. His cause was helped by the fact that the Soviet ambassador is the Georgy Zarubin of World's Fair days. It may also have been helped by the fact that Violinist Yehudi Menuhin met Oistrakh in London and began his own correspondence with the State Department in the hope of winning his colleague a visa to the U.S. When Schang asked about visas, he said, the State Department "encouraged" him. Last week, Pianist Gilels told the embassy he was willing...
...week's end, Schang was confident that "Gilels is in the bag." Oistrakh may come next spring, if international tempos remain steady. By that time, Schang hopes to see some of his top clients-Conductors Dimitri Mitropoulos, Eugene Ormandy and Leopold Stokowski, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, Bass Baritone George London-solidly booked for concerts in Russia...
...Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Guest: Violinist Isaac Stern...