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...performance of Bruch and Mozart was sensitive and finely shaded; in passages of Beethoven and Saint-Saens she showed grit and fire as well. Pinky, tapping his feet and swaying into a sort of golfer's follow-through, plunged with intuitive flair and gusto into music by Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart and Tchaikovsky, and his broad, compelling tone filled up the hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contests: Cookie & Pinky Come Through | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

...concert opened with the Vivaldi Concerto Grosso in D minor. A reduced HRO was ripieno--perhaps not reduced enough, since the string sound was still too lush for the style of the piece. In spite of numbers, however, the texture was clean and transparent; the violins showed good sectional discipline and accomplished exhilarating effects of terrace dynamics. Violin soloists Edgar Engelman and Marilyn Malpass had just enough brilliance and energy for Vivaldi and were effective in spite of some nervousness. 'Cellist, Martha Babcock handled her part efficiently, but was dry and weak compared to the others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HRO | 5/1/1967 | See Source »

Even today, the Palazzo San Giorgio, headquarters of Genoa's port authority, contains no monument to Columbus; instead, it houses a life-size statue of one Francesco Vivaldi, a more representative native son, who in 1371 introduced compound interest into the city's banking system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Stirrings in La Superbo | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). The work of Composer Antonio Vivaldi in "A Concert of Angels," with Narrator John Heffernan, Soprano Roberta Peters and the CBS Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Alfredo Antonini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 27, 1967 | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

BERNARD KRAINIS: CONCERTOS FOR RECORDERS (Mercury). The ancient instrument, beloved by Shakespeare and Pepys, now serves to introduce untold thousands of children and adults to the joys of producing music; so it is all the more dazzling to hear Krainis' virtuoso display as he whistles through concertos by Vivaldi, Telemann and Handel without a tripped note or an empty breath sucked in-like a lark with the lungs of a lion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 26, 1966 | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

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