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Works of Couperin, Strauss, Debussy, and Faure; Marcel Bardon, cellist, and John Cobb, pianist; Holmes Living Room...
Yiddish Folk and Art Songs: Norman Janis, tenor, and Jane Myers, accompanist, Ball Shem Suite for Cello and Piano: Three Pictures of Hasidic Life Near Stufberg, pianist, Jacqueline Holfman, cellist Phillips Brooks House Partor...
...much I could have done for my country had I been given just 'musical freedom,' " lamented Soviet Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, 47, in a letter written recently to Le Monde. His claim was vindicated by his U.S. conducting debut before an audience of 2,700 at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington. Rostropovich, who had encountered growing repression in his homeland because of his loyalty to Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn and other dissident artists, left the Soviet Union in May with his wife, Soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. The maestro's troubles seemed almost distant, however, as he guided...
Died. Lionel Tertis, 98, English viola virtuoso; in London. Born in 1876, on the same day as Cellist Pablo Casals, Tertis campaigned successfully to persuade composers to write solo pieces for his chosen instrument. For more than four decades Tertis was Europe's premier violist, playing with such friends as Casals and Pianist Artur Rubinstein, who joined him for a celebrated recital of Brahms' C Minor Piano Quartet during a London blackout in World War II. The Tertis viola, which he designed after his retirement, remains the choice of many leading concert performers...
Last Friday at Kirkland House, four fine musicians gave an intense and memorable performance of this quartet, revealing its masterful qualities through the vividness of their playing. The music makes extreme emotional and technical demands, but clarinetist David Kass, pianist Hugh Wolff, violinist Lynn Chang, and cellist Craig Hogan rose impressively to the challenge...