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...Mixturtrau-tonium, originally developed by a German physics professor in 1930 and later refined by Engineer-Composer Oskar Sala. is a complicated monster operated by pressing the fingers on two strings through which runs a weak electric current. By shifting his fingers along the strings much like a violinist and by working switches and pedals, the player can-at least theoretically-produce notes and pre-set chords of every imaginable color, frequency and strength. But so far the Mixturtrautonium can be played only by Engineer Sala...
Edinburgh (Aug. 21-Sept. 10) will have as bulky a line-up as ever with the BBC Symphony, the Berlin, New York and London Royal Philharmonic orchestras, the Glyndebourne opera, an all-.star trio (Pianist Solomon, Violinist Zino Francescatti, Cellist Pierre Founder), plus a score of others...
Prades (July 2-18) will present famed Cellist Pablo Casals, 78, in his sixth festival, this one devoted to music of Bach, Schubert and Brahms. Other soloists: Violinist Yehudi Menuhin; Pianists Eugene Istomin and Mieczyslaw Horszowski; Singers Eleanor Steber, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Jan Peerce...
Bergen, Norway, will be gay with folk dancing and flags for its third annual festival (May 26-June 7). Famed for its musical sons Edvard Grieg and Violinist Ole Bull, the city will feature Scandinavian music played by Bergen and Copenhagen orchestras. Star soloist: Russian Violinist David Oistrakh...
Died. Georges Enesco, 73, Rumanian composer, conductor and violinist, who became his nation's leading musician, won worldwide acclaim for his Rumanian Rhapsodies; after long illness; in Paris. Enesco entered the Vienna Conservatory at seven despite a director's protest that it was "not a cradle," had had his compositions widely performed by the time he was a young man. He had lived in France for the last 50 years, recently turned down a bid to return to Red-controlled Rumania...