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Birnbaum belongs to a musical family: his wife is a professional violist, one of his sons a pianist who also happens to practice law, the other son a flautist who is studying composition at Stanford. Birnbaum himself admits to playing the piano "badly." Can he play a stringed instrument? "Only a tennis racquet," says Birnbaum solemnly, "but I like fiddling with words...
Bill Eilberg, violist, and Lou Karchin, pianist, Eccles, Bach, Chopin, Karchin, and Brahms. Currier...
Died. Lionel Tertis, 98, English viola virtuoso; in London. Born in 1876, on the same day as Cellist Pablo Casals, Tertis campaigned successfully to persuade composers to write solo pieces for his chosen instrument. For more than four decades Tertis was Europe's premier violist, playing with such friends as Casals and Pianist Artur Rubinstein, who joined him for a celebrated recital of Brahms' C Minor Piano Quartet during a London blackout in World War II. The Tertis viola, which he designed after his retirement, remains the choice of many leading concert performers...
...more hard-core sorts are the two Buswell-Carlin violin and piano recitals at Kirkland House. The music department's Lowell Lindgren has arranged a String Festival of Marlborough-caliber musicians. Other programs in the series will have cellists Madeline Foley and Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Annie Kavafian, and violist Marcus Thompson...
Special Resources. If the Guarneri is indeed Budapest's heir, it could not have been more properly anointed. It was founded at Vermont's Marlboro Music Festival at the suggestion of the Budapest's own second violinist, Alexander Schneider; its name was supplied by Budapest Violist Boris Kroyt, who had once played with a now defunct European quartet called the Guarneri (after the 18th century Italian violinmaker). Despite its distinguished sponsorship, the quartet's success is the result of its own special musical resources. First Violinist Arnold Steinhardt, 32, a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), darkly...