Word: violins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...following programs of recorded music will be played from 1 to 3 p.m. in time Bunch-Reisinger Museum: today: Berg, Chamber concerto for violin, piano, and 13 wind instruments; Suite from Lulu; Thursday: Handel, Alcina; Friday: Handel, Alcina...
...fans, master and pupil embraced, close to tears at the hour of their triumph. After a life of study, three weeks of merciless competition, and a midnight wait for the jury's decision, a young Russian violinist named Alexei Michlin had won last week's Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition, and there to share in the glory of it all was his teacher, David Oistrakh...
...grow up on and the day seemed especially bright for Oistrakh: of the winners at Brussels, three are his very own pupils. The Russian superiority, critics agreed, involved fidelity to the music, discipline-and the kind of maturity that let Michlin, 24, quickly snatch up the concertmaster's violin and go on playing when a string in his own instrument broke during his performance of a concerto written especially for the occasion...
Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Jascha Heifetz; RCA Victor) is a five-LP package that includes all ten of Beethoven's sonatas, masterfully played by Violinist Heifetz and Pianists Emanuel Bay and Brooks Smith. What with a fat book of program notes, it is big enough to be a doorstop; what with Heifetz playing as he does, it is almost a way of life...
Hemingway took him to the boxing matches; Duchamp beat him at chess. Brancusi entertained him by playing the violin, Cocteau by a drum recital, Gertrude Stein by letting Alice B. Toklas cook him lunch. And this was fit tribute to the wiry young expatriate American who not only made artful photographs of his Paris friends but also created a series of "objects"-tacks fastened to a flatiron, a picture of the human eye to a metronome - that shook the salons of the '20s with cries of ecstasy and reverence. Yet Man Ray wanted fame as a painter...