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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...
Tonight We Sing is at its slickly Technicolored best when it makes music. As Russian Ballerina Anna Pavlova, Toumanova dances the famed Dying Swan. As noted Belgian Violinist Eugéne Ysaÿe, Isaac Stern plays a Wieniawski Concerto and Sarasate's Ziegeunerweisen. As Basso Feodor Chaliapin, Ezio Pinza, in a blond wig, swaggers off with the show by giving a lustily humorous performance and singing snatches from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Gounod's Faust, and a chorus of The Volga Boatman. These latter-day artists offer an earnest approximation of the originals. David Wayne, using...
...Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No. 2 (Isaac Stern, with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Efrem Kurtz conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). A melodic and romantic showpiece by a contemporary of Tchaikovsky, in an impressive performance by young Virtuoso Stern (TIME, June 23)'. Recording: good...
...Rosen will play selections by Bach, Debussy, Wieniawski, Gluck-Kreisler and Tivadar Nachez. She will be assisted on the piano by Amelia Tataronis, soprano, Frank Chatterton, and Gudrun Hatch Howe...
Marriage Revealed. Artur Rodzinski, 40, conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra; and Halina Lilpop Wieniawski; in Warsaw; in July...