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That long, extraordinary career began in the small, dusty Catalan town of Vendrell, south of Barcelona, where Casals' father was a church organist. By the time the boy was eleven, he had mastered the organ, piano and violin and had turned to the cello and the music of Bach (later he was to begin each of his days by playing a few minutes of Bach's Well Tempered Clavichord). Packed off to Barcelona to study, he played in a gambling casino to support himself. Said one awed casino patron: "He transformed a cage into a concert hall...
...Piano and Orchestra, in 1952). ¶ Veli Mukhatov, 40, praised by Khachaturian for his oratorios. ¶ Akhmed Gadzhiev, 39, noted for a 1952 symphonic poem, Peace. Other young Russian composers, better known outside the Soviet Union: ¶ Karen Khachaturian, 36. Aram's nephew, whose eclectic, highly rhythmic Violin Sonata in G Minor has been recorded by Russian Virtuoso David Oistrakh. ¶ Andrei Volkonsky, 23, whose works hint at Hindemith; he migrated from France to Russia a few years ago, caused a stir in Moscow last year with a Piano Quintet...
Born. To Irmgard Seefried, 36, bouncy leading soprano of the Vienna State Opera, who has made four U.S. tours, stirred Metropolitan Opera audiences as Susanna in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro in 1953. and Wolfgang Schneiderhan. 38, violin virtuoso: their second daughter, second child; in Vienna. Name: Monika. Weight...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Conductor Paul Paray and Violin Soloist Zino Francescatti...
...balanced movement in C-sharp. Solidly constructed, it had many varied sonorities and not a few Bartokian turns. I was a bit disturbed by the unrelievedly grim and anguished cerebration that the music betrays. I also question the wisdom of starting a quartet with such a lengthy duet for violin and 'cello (which almost guarantees that the flute, being cold, will enter out of tune) and of inserting such a long piano solo in the middle: both the players and the audience will feel cheated. I must single out Lawrence Lesser for his masterly handling of the 'cello part...