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...cooler about its own quality. But last week, after a series of ten Mozart quartets in Manhattan, the quartet was warming toward itself. They were mildly criticized for bringing a thought too much of their own 20th Century exuberance to Mozart's 18th Century brand. But as Violinist Robert Mann put it: "We think we played Mozart every bit as well as we did Bartok, probably better. And young people accept our classical playing as easily as the older ones do our moderns...
...Violinist Joseph Szi-geti...
...podium as a springboard. Conductor Caston built up his orchestra to 76 pieces on the same principles-ears cocked for musical ability, eyes peeled for settlers. The result is "a happy orchestra," with most of the musicians under 30. Among them: a Negro bass viol player and a Nisei violinist...
Died. Fritz Busch, 61, conductor at the Metropolitan Opera (1945-51) and the Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company; of a heart attack; in London. Member of a notable musical family (brother Adolf became a famed violinist and cofounder, with brother Hermann, of the first-rate Busch String Quartet), he played the piano at four, conducted at 19. As conductor of the Dresden Opera he spoke out boldly against state-controlled art ("I am a man, I hope, of a little bit of temperament, so I told everyone frankly what I thought about the Nazis"), left Germany in 1933 after Storm Troopers...
Michael Mann, 34, youngest son of Author Thomas Mann (see BOOKS), chose the Santa Monica High School auditorium for his American debut as a concert violist when he returns from Austria this month. Scheduled to share the program with him: Pianist Yaltah Menuhin, sister of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin...