Word: virtuoso
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...most eminent senior citizens, Vienna-born Violinist Fritz Kreisler, proudly made his way to city hall, where on his 85th birthday he got a civic scroll for "distinguished and exceptional service" from Mayor Robert F. Wagner. Aside from composing such popular tunes as Romance and Caprice Viennois, Virtuoso Kreisler also "ghostwrote" a series of compositions that he ascribed to 17th and 18th century masters; years later he confessed that he had done so because "I found it inexpedient and tactless to repeat my name endlessly on the programs." During the city hall ceremony Kreisler, who played his first U.S. concert...
...such great Russian-Jewish violinists as Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist, all of whom were, like Milstein, trained by the late great Leopold Auer. In the generation that has passed since Milstein first appeared on the U.S. musical scene, he has transformed himself without fanfare from a dazzling virtuoso to a mature master, not only of bravura composers such as Max Bruch and Sarasate, but of Brahms, Beethoven and Bach. Little interested in contemporary music ("I am not a pioneer; perhaps my taste is bad"), he has won a vast audience to his sensitive readings of the classics...
...wealthy Russian wool importer, Milstein was guided into a virtuoso's career by his ambitious mother, freely admits that he was unenthusiastic about the violin until he was 16 and began to give public recitals. In 1925 he left Russia for Western Europe with his lifelong friend, Pianist Vladimir Horowitz...
...Music-in-the-Making series, now in its eighth season, presented a concert at Cooper Union featuring the works of Dika Newlin. Andrew Imbrie, Teo Macero, Wayne Barlow and Richard Arnell. Best of the lot were Composer Macero's Polaris, a virtuoso piece for French horn and orchestra, which gives the horn a chance to indulge in all the odd wiggles, slides and quirks it is capable of, and Arnell's Concerto Capriccioso, marked by rich string harmonies and a delicate interplay between the solo violin and the winds. Privately financed, the Music-in-the-Making concerts feature...
...toured the U.S. last month (TIME, Nov. 23) with four other leading Soviet musicians, spoke out on his impressions of popular capitalist music. Most jazz musicians, including Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, he adjudged "vulgar, unnatural and in anything but good taste." But he had a kind word for Clarinet Virtuoso Benny Goodman: kho-lodny (real cool...