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...concerts a year, and lets talented kids sit in with the orchestra once a year. The first year, only four little fiddlers (one of whom made a puddle on the stage) could make the grade. Last year he had a stage full: 30 violinists, 17 cellists and one violist. He also trained a schoolkids' chorus to sing Kodaly's Psalmus Hungarians-in Hungarian...
...Academy of Music had gone together to a concert of Belgium's famed Pro Arte String Quartet, of which Maas was the cellist. They came away determined to form a quartet of their own. The four-Violinists Sidney Griller and Jack O'Brien, Cellist Colin Hampton and Violist Philip Burton-decided over a pint of beer that the way to become a quartet was to live together, break all family ties, refuse engagements to play separately...
Boston Symphony (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun, Berlioz' Harold in Italy. Soloist: Violist Joseph De Pasquale; Koussevitzky conducting...
Mozart: Quintet in D Major for Strings, K. 593 (Milton Katims, violist, with the Budapest String Quartet; Columbia, 6 sides). Somber but superb Mozart, superbly played. Recording: fair...
Once, when Toscanini was conducting the orchestra, he noticed that Katims was not sitting in the first violist's chair. He asked why, and was told that Katims was off conducting elsewhere. "Why should anyone want to wave a stick when he can play the viola like that?" said Toscanini. "Anyone can wave a stick...