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2022-12-15 01:12:33
VC LIVE | North Shore Chamber Music Festival Presents "A Tribute to Legendary Violinist Henryk Szeryng"
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2022-12-08 17:07:50
Vadim Gluzman Honors Violinist Henryk Szeryng
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2021-12-28 15:51:31
Henryk Szeryng was born on Sept. 22, 1918 in Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, and he died March 3, 1988 in Kassel, Germany. Szeryng studied with Carl Flesch in Berlin and with Jacques Thibaud in Paris. He made his debut in 1933, and from 1933 to 1939 he was a composition student of Nadia Boulanger in Paris. During World War II he was on the staff of the Polish government-in-exile. Fluent in seven languages, he worked as a translator and traveled to Mexico to find homes for refugees. He gave more than 300 concerts for Allied troops in Europe, Asia, Africa,
2021-08-16 13:57:46
Neveu and Stockhausen, 2021
This Week in Classical Music: August 16, 2021. Ginette Neveu and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Last week we promised to write about the violinist Ginette Neveu. The reason Neveu is not better known is because her life was tragically short. Neveu was born in Paris on August 11th of 1919. Her mother was Ginette’s first violin teacher. Ginette made her first public appearance at the age of seven playing Bruch's Violin Concerto no. 1 and later that same year performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with the Colonne Orchestra under the direction of Gabriel Pierné. She studied at the Paris Conservatory, receiving a premier prix at the age of 11, and then continued with George Enescu and the Hungarian teacher and violinist Carl Flesch (among Flesch’s pupils were Ivry Gitlis, Ida Haendel, Josef Hassid and Henryk Szeryng). In 1935, aged 15, Neveu won the International Wieniawski Competition; David Oistrakh, who was 11 years her older, […]
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