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...Moscow, top-ranking U.S. Violinist Isaac Stern was turned loose in the hall where Yehudi Menuhin, the last American artist to play in Russia, fiddled a decade ago. More than 2,000, including (as the U.S.S.R.'s Violinist David Oistrakh put it) "all the violinists in Moscow," crammed the hall. A member of the diplomatic corps called it the most elegant gathering seen in Moscow in years...
...drone keeps up a fill-in. The music is quite difficult to understand at first, partially due to the strange scales it uses. But repeated hearings brig out the intricate beauty of its very advanced art. It is worthwhile buying the "de luxe" edition, as the explanatory notes by Yehudi Menuhin are very helpful. (Angel...
...competition is almost entirely made up of his countrymen, for most of today's great violinists are Russian (and, by an odd cultural phenomenon, Russian Jews). Their names: Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman, Nathan Milstein, Isaac Stern and (of Russian parents) Yehudi Menuhin. This week, for the first time, U.S. audiences had a chance to compare Oistrakh in person with the other violin masters. For, during Geneva's temporary thaw in the cold war, Moscow had decided to allow its most famous musical performer to come...
...policy shift, and he promptly opened negotiations with the Soviet embassy in Washington to import Russian musicians. His cause was helped by the fact that the Soviet ambassador is the Georgy Zarubin of World's Fair days. It may also have been helped by the fact that Violinist Yehudi Menuhin met Oistrakh in London and began his own correspondence with the State Department in the hope of winning his colleague a visa to the U.S. When Schang asked about visas, he said, the State Department "encouraged" him. Last week, Pianist Gilels told the embassy he was willing to come...
...week's end, Schang was confident that "Gilels is in the bag." Oistrakh may come next spring, if international tempos remain steady. By that time, Schang hopes to see some of his top clients-Conductors Dimitri Mitropoulos, Eugene Ormandy and Leopold Stokowski, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, Bass Baritone George London-solidly booked for concerts in Russia...