Word: violins
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...Carnegie Hall Salutes Jack Benny" was the billing for the concert honoring the onetime boy violin prodigal, now 67, who in the past few years has scraped away to raise more than $2,000,000 for symphony orchestras in 16 U.S. cities. Climax of the evening was the appearance of Carnegie President Isaac Stern, who joined the comedian in Bach's Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins. In the afternoon rehearsal, while Benny fiddled, Stern burned: "I wish you'd play C-sharp." "Where?" wondered Benny. Advised Stern: "Where it's written." But during the actual...
...presence which melts in the wings into a conservative reality. If this is what the American people want there are American "folk singers" who chant Russian peasant songs to the accompaniment of periodic taps on the dashboard of a Mercedes sedan, or emit plantation work songs out over the violin section from the confines of tight black pants and silk shirts. These are the part-time romantics who make their deliveries without the "Alice-in-Wonderland logic" and with all the power and effectiveness of half the critical mass. The public, in its approach to the performer, cannot effectively substitute...
...weaken the motion of the other parts. Chorus, orchestra and soloists blended easily, the trumpets and horns penetrating the luminous tone of the chorus but never over-powering it. The chorus's enunciation was perfect throughout. As in the Faure, here there was no schmalz, and Richard Burgin's violin solo in the Aeterna Fac was even perhaps too clipped...
...become a piano instructor at the Budapest Academy of Music, he fell in love with a former academy student. 17-year-old Violinist Stefi Geyer. The 26-year-old Bartok expressed his devotion in two mistily adolescent letters and in one piece of music-Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra-that conveyed his emotions far more cogently than any words. That was in 1907. For reasons unknown. Violinist Geyer never played the work publicly, and at her death in 1957, twelve years after Bartok died, she left the manuscript to Swiss Conductor Paul Sacher. who performed it in Switzerland...
Actually, the first movement is familiar as one of Bartok's Two Portraits for violin and orchestra. The second, fast movement, however, never got off the pages of Violinist Geyer's manuscript (which carries a dedication from Bartok that Conductor Sacher regards as too personal for publication). The 20-minute concerto emerged as a first-rate work-colorful, rhapsodic, characterized by soaring melodic lines of originality and striking beauty. Frankly romantic, it gives only occasional hints of the later Bartok of the second Violin Concerto-notably in the abrupt shifts of mood, the raucous attacks of the second...