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Always Interested. In Italy, Muriel had her first son, Paul Jr. In Italy, too, she fell under the spell of the gilded intellectual and artistic set of pre-1914 Europe-Art Critic Bernard Berenson. Violinist Albert Spalding, Actress Eleonora Duse, Dilettante Mabel Dodge, and John Reed, who later glorified the Russian Revolution in Ten Days That Shook the World, and now lies buried beneath the Kremlin wall...
...cognoscenti gave their closest attention to the Festival Piano Quartet (a string trio and piano). Its players were famous "lone wolves of music," Pianist Clifford Curzon, Violinist Joseph Szigeti, Violist William Primrose, Cellist Pierre Fournier, and its founder was the late great Pianist Artur Schnabel. Like most serious musicians, the big-name soloists love to play chamber music; for the privilege of playing together, they agreed to accept fees far below their normal standard. Their performances of Brahms, Schubert and Fauré were brilliant. But few listeners outside of Edinburgh will have a chance to hear them: the quartet will...
...View. But Leeds has had its troubles. Last February, two U.S. companies released identical recordings by the National Philharmonic and Bolshoi Theater choruses and orchestras of Shostakovich's Song of the Forests: only one of them was Leeds-licensed. A few months later, two companies brought out Violinist David Oistrakh's expert performance of the Brahms Double Concerto...
...concertos, the portentous D Minor, K. 466 and the C Minor, K. 491, with strength and tenderness; Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler, making the Vienna Philharmonic perform with the best in Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, Schubert's Unfinished and Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor; Violinist Yehudi Menuhin at his dazzling peak in Paganini's popular, pyrotechnical Concerto...
Alumni of Connecticut's Kent School remember a famous function-the night the headmaster sat in for a sick violinist at the prep school's dance. The Rev. Frederick Herbert Sill, priest of the Protestant Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross, fiddled till midnight so that his boys and their girls could dance to proper music. From the raised band platform he could also keep an eye on student manners. Any Kent boy who departed from propriety got a smart rap with the master's fiddle bow as he danced...