Word: violins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Researcher Brine, who has worked on more than a dozen TIME covers in her 16 years with the magazine, branched out into the violin at seven, still retains enough of her musical knowledge to coach her three children. Music Editor Murphy has not touched a piano since he enlisted in the Navy at 17 in 1944. His constant preoccupation on the job with music listening and concert going has given him a set of musical references that ranges from Pal Joey to Wozzeck, and a special affection for Verdi, Brahms, Wallingford Riegger and Charles Ives...
...CONCERT. The fifth in the Boston Symphony Orchestra's yearly forays into Cambridge. The program is scheduled to include Darius Milhaud's La Creation du monde, Schumann's Violin Concerto in d (soloist: Henryk Szeryng), and Cesar Franck's Symphony in d. Sanders Theatre; 8:30 P.M. Tickets at Symphony Hall, or at the door...
...chamber music served to contrast them even more clearly, identify each as a commanding solo artist. Although critics agreed that Igor still has a long way to go before he can challenge his father's mastery, the younger man's forceful, exuberant interpretation of the Concerto for Violin in E neatly counterbalanced David's melodic, subtle Concerto in A Minor...
...majestic finish, Igor played first violin, David second, in the D Minor Concerto for Two Violins, and the contrasts suddenly seemed to disappear. At one point it seemed to listeners that the elder Oistrakh had the more penetrating, his son the more silvery, tone; but when the same passage recurred in the concerto, the two violinists seemed to have swapped tone colors and styles. Said the Daily Telegraph's David Cooper: "The two play not simply as one mind, but as one instrument." The Oistrakhs agreed. Said Igor: "We don't know or feel differences or similarities that...
...difficulties in remarkable fashion. Emphasizing the restraint and delicacy of Webern's ponderings, they proceeded quietly and somberly in the second, fourth and fifth movements, but exploded with appropriate force in the first and third. The group handled the bowing and quavers assuredly and the harmonics in the first violin were steady and precise. Despite an occasionally weak viola, they displayed good tone and coordinated well the sparse harmonies and fragmented melodies...