Word: wieniawski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When it comes to fiddling, there is hardly a more important contest in the world than Poland's two-week Wieniawski Violin Competition.* The contest opened in Poznan this year with 45 contestants from eleven countries (including five Americans) bowing away at each other. On hand were 17 judges, eleven from Iron Curtain countries. In a rigorous round (unaccompanied Bach sonatas and Wieniawski caprices), almost half the contestants were eliminated. Two stood out; it would be a contest between a U.S. and a Russian violinist...
...concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Louisville Orchestra. His Soviet competitor was a talented Russian girl, Rosa Fain, 28, pupil of Russian Violinist David Oistrakh, one of the judges. Only 13 violinists lasted to the finals. The required work: a Polish violin concerto. Both Violinists Harth and Fain selected Wieniawski's Second Concerto...
...Named for Poland's famed Violinist-Composer Henri Wieniawski...
...rejoiced. Abby was there dancing waltzes, two-steps and the lancers; his father was there, resplendent in white evening gloves with the latest white stitching; his mother, who had a headache and could not come, was nonetheless gratified by the musicale-selections from Carmen, Russian airs by Wieniawski and a ballad called Love's Sorrow...
Stern and his pianist, Manhattan's Alexander Zakin (like Stern, Russian-born), played their way through Bach, Brahms, Aaron Copland, Mozart, Bloch and Wieniawski, and Violinist Stern finally silenced the storm of applause by a little speech in Russian: "We are the first American artists to play here in many years. We hope many more will be here soon...