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...Fabares) who offers him $5,000 to make beautiful music for her alone. Another is a lady sociologist (Diane McBain) who wants to interview him in depth, just to prove that her "analysis of the mating motive is right on the button." Still another (Deborah Walley) is a lady instrumentalist who offers him a mean rhythm section and something that in her wide Midwestern accent sounds like "goremay...
...roars. "They are feasting on something that is stale." Not so. They are feasting a most remarkable virtuoso. Rubinstein has played more concerts before more people, sold more record albums (more than 5,000,000), grossed more money and attracted a more widely popular following than any other classical instrumentalist in history. At a time when artists 25 years his junior are gearing down for retirement, he is shifting into overdrive. This season he will perform virtually every third day in concert halls from Ithaca to Istanbul. The real wonder is not that he is still going so strong...
...INSTRUMENTALISTS. Of the 1,213 instrumental soloists Schwann lists, most are pianists (452), but curiosity seekers may dig out the name of Bruno Hoffman-the one and only glass harmonica virtuoso. Along with lonely exponents of the virginal, the psaltery and the oboe d'amore, there are 166 violinists, 88 organists, 73 harpsichordists, 64 flautists and 56 cellists listed, each count a statistical gain over 1960. Walter Gieseking and Sviatoslav Richter are the leading pianists, with 46 recordings each; Richter had only 19 three years ago, and, having made the biggest jump of any instrumentalist, he is now being...
...started holding auditions and putting the bite on his friends for contributions. He listened to a total of 200 young instrumentalists in his penthouse on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, hired the outstanding performers and put the rest on a waiting list. To fill out the orchestra with more experienced players, Stokowski consulted what is probably the most extensive talent file in all music: his own loose-leaf notebook in which he has evaluated every instrumentalist and singer who has ever performed with him-about 1,700 of them...
Presumably the orchestra has improved since it was first founded four years ago; Mr. Victor Manusevitch, the conductor, walked into the first rehearsal with the score of Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony under his arm to find himself the director of 20 instrumentalist, eight of them flautists. Now, at any rate, the orchestra has at least one of everything and a respectable number of string players. Unfortunately, most of them should have never have been let in sight of any orchestra: the woodwinds, en bloc, refused to stay in tune with the rest of the orchestra; not that one was often...