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...confidence and poise he had shown in the preceding movements. Nor did the audience: every time he raised his bow, the onlookers stiffened in expectation. However, the performance was fully up to BSO standards. Following the third movement there was another commotion--this time on the stage. A violist, arising abruptly, dashed through a side door, and his colleagues resumed their conversations...
Though they sound as if they have been playing together all their lives, the Italiano was formed only after the war. First Violinist Paolo Borciani rounded up the others-Elisa, Violist Piero Farulli and Cellist Franco Rossi-on a promise of "some money and good food." After less than four months of practice they gave their first concert. They have had their hands full ever since...
...quartet's four members are as American as White Christmas. First Violinist Mann, 31, comes from Portland, Ore.; Second Violinist Robert Koff, 32, from Los Angeles; Violist Raphael Hillyer, 37, from Hanover, N.H., and Cellist Arthur Winograd, 31, from Manhattan. Mann and Koff knew each other at the Juilliard conservatory; Winograd and Hillyer, a onetime violinist in the Boston Symphony, met at Tanglewood. After the war (all but Hillyer were in the Army), they got together and persuaded Juilliard President William Schuman that they were exactly what he wanted for a resident quartet...
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...
...first U.S. tour, in 1931, the Budapest could find no audiences west of Chicago, returned disappointed to Europe and divided up an unrewarding $5,000 net. Today, the members of the quartet (Violinists Joseph Roisman and Jac Gorodetsky, Violist Boris Kroyt, Cellist Mischa Schneider) are all naturalized U.S. citizens. With recording dates and more than 100 U.S. recitals a year, they hardly have time for a European vacation...