Word: violins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GLAZOUNOV: VIOLIN CONCERTO (Walter Hendl conducting; RCA Victor). Heifetz in a sparkling new performance of the 59-year-old work by the late cosmopolitan Russian, who studied with Rimsky-Korsakov but was more influenced by Brahms. Filled with musing melodies, effortless ornamental passages and infectious rhythms, the three movements are played in one romantic sweep...
...GLORY OF CREMONA (Decca). For an elaborate and instructive violin lesson, Ruggiero Ricci collected $750,000 worth of great instruments, including six Stradivarii and five Guarnerii. To show their differences, Ricci plays on each the same short phrase from Bruch. To bring out their beauty, he plays on each a different short piece (Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Paganini, Handel, Brahms). "The more output and resource an instrument has," Ricci says, "the more difficult it is to handle." He proves that he can handle them all, but like Heifetz and Stern, he favors the Guarnerii, capable of more bite and passion than...
...ceremony, and so this time around it was a sari affair at her $1,500,000 estate near Cuernavaca, Mexico. There were seven tiers to the wedding cake, not in honor of her seven husbands but in honor of the groom's rank in Laos, and when the violin-serenaded reception was over, she was Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow Grant Troubetzkoy Rubirosa Von Cramm Na Champassak...
Showers & Violins. Ninety years old this week, this uniquely cultural Y is known officially as the Young Men's & Young Women's Hebrew Association. The founders, leading Jewish philanthropists of the 1870s, aimed at "the cultural and intellectual advancement of Jewish young men." At first that meant luring immigrant kids off the streets with hot showers and 50 violin lessons. Later it meant developing the New York Pro Musica ensemble, harboring dancers from Martha Graham to Jose Limon, and attracting some of the most literate audiences in the U.S. While salvaging such once-poor Jewish boys as Bernard...
Making the point in music required a storm of inventiveness, and Gerhard, 67, proved himself to be a resourceful composer. Violin bows drawn across cymbals' edges make their pale, tortured protest as they create an eerie, shimmering climate of fear. A nail file raked across piano strings evokes wind against telegraph wires. The murmur and patter of the rats in the streets is sounded by cellists tapping clamped strings...