Word: wieniawski
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Works of Franck, Wieniawski, and Bach; Cecylia Arzewski, violin, and Jay Gottlieb, piano; Currier...
KIRKLAND HOUSE JCR. Robert Portney, violin; Arlene Portney, piano. Works by Scarlatti, Chopin, Liszt, Franck, Wieniawski, and Bartok...
Plano and Violin Program, performed by Ivey Geoghegan and Kathy Kautsky. Pieces by Mozart, Prokofieff, Bach, Szymanowski and Wieniawski. Mather House Dining Hall, 3, March 12. Free...
...fall in his Manhattan apartment. At the age of three, Rabin demonstrated that he had perfect pitch by plinking notes on the piano to correspond to any sound he heard. At 14, he made his recital debut at Carnegie Hall, launching his professional career with a flawless rendition of Wieniawski's Concerto No. 1. The next year came the first of his 84 appearances with the New York Philharmonic. The pressures of being a prodigy took their toll, and in 1963 Rabin suffered a nervous breakdown that interrupted his concert tours for two years...
Unheeded Advice. When a student tackles a technically difficult piece, like the Wieniawski concerto, Galamian makes it a little more difficult by asking quietly: "Sure you are ready to play this?" He means from memory, the way he plays everything. Surprisingly, he never did much concertizing of his own. How could he, when he was 14 at the time of his first lesson? His first lesson as a teacher, that is. When he talks about his childhood in Moscow, he says only that he was the son of an Armenian cotton merchant, a shy boy who wanted...