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KIRKLAND HOUSE. Sonatas by Brahms, Hindemith, Chopin. James Buswell, violin; Marcus Thompson, viola; Madeline Foley, cello; Seth Carlin, piano. Tickets: $.99. Friday, November...
...Hindemith, the audience had stopped rattling their programs and was ready for Starker. But he was not ready for them. He performed the first movement of Vivaldi's concerto in D major for cello--a violin concerto rescored for cello--as though his appearance were just another night shift on the assembly line. He payed little attention to the orchestra, which had difficulty adjusting to the soloist's rhythm. In the second movement, Starker finally shed his coldness, swaying his body to listen to the concertmaster and moving his eyebrows as he explored the beauty of Vivaldi's larghetto...
Pablo's father was the church organist in the town of Vendrell some 40 miles from Barcelona, and the young Pablo grew up with music. He was playing the piano at four, the violin at seven, the organ at nine. At eleven he heard a cello for the first time when a traveling trio visited Vendrell. "I felt as if I could not breathe. There was something so tender, beautiful and human about the sound. A radiance filled...
...toward the young artist, and embraced him, saying: "You are one of the elect." Casals was then 22, and from then on, he had it made. He played for Queen Victoria, the King and Queen of Portugal, and became an intimate of Belgium's Queen Elisabeth (she played violin to his cello...
HOLMES HALL LIVING ROOM. Joseph R. Conte, violin; and Paul Rosenbloom, piano. Chamber music of Mozart, Schumann, Rosenbloom, and Brahms. Free. Sunday, November...