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2023-11-27 16:20:57
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2022-10-10 14:19:21
[…] -- was born on October 14th of 1871. Several eminent pianists were born during the same period, among them the American William Kapell, whose 100th anniversary was on September 20th, (he tragically died in a plane crash in 1953, at just 31 years old); Glenn Gould, who also had a round anniversary (90th), on September 25th. And Vladimir Horowitz was born on October 1st of 1903. We certainly should mention the strings: the violinist Jacques Thibaud (9/27/1880), David Oistrakh (9/30/1908) and the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who turned 67 on October 7th. We’ll mention just one conductor, Charles Munch, born on September 26th of 1891. We’ve mentioned him several times in the past but failed to write about him at any length; we should correct this lapse - he was one of the best interpreters of French music and led the Boston Symphony for 13 years. And finally, several singers: Anna […]
2022-08-22 14:33:55
Lukas Foss and Ivry Gitlis, 2022
[…] up the violin at the age of five, and at the age of eight played to Bronisław Huberman, the famous Polish violinist who was visiting Palestine (several years later, in 1936, Huberman founded Israel’s first symphony orchestra, the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, now called Israel Philharmonic). Huberman was impressed and organized a fundraiser to send Ivry to France for further studies. In Paris Gitlis went to the Conservatoire where his teachers were George Enescu and Jacques Thibaud. During WWII Gitlis moved to the UK (which probably saved his life) and performed many concerts for the troops. In the 1950s he traveled to the US, where he met Jascha Heifetz and, under the management of Sol Hurok, established himself as one of the premier violinists. Later in the 1950s he returned to France. Even though Gitlis played a wide contemporary repertoire (and had many pieces written for him), he was rather […]
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,
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