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ArticleMy Name Is Anthony Gonsalves
'You see the whole country of the system is juxtapositioned by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity!' In the May 2013 issue, we trace the colourful history of violin music in the Bollywood ...
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ArticleIU Jacobs School of Music appoints Joseph Swensen to violin faculty
The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music has appointed Joseph Swensen as visiting professor of violin. The New Jersey-born violinist, composer and conductor will start his position in the autumn of 2013. Swensen is currently conductor emeritus of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO). He was the ...
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ArticleBBC Proms programme highlights star string soloists but just one quartet
Violin concertos will be well represented at the 2013 BBC Proms, although string quartets and trios are almost absent from this year’s programme. Despite a series of chamber music and Saturday lunchtime concerts set for Cadogan Hall during the Proms period, the only quartet to be performing ...
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ArticleHeifetz plays Mendelssohn
In the April issue, US violist Miles Hoffman chooses his five favourite classical discs. He begins with this recording of Jascha Heifetz performing Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor with Thomas Beecham conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. 'My love for the violin, and for music, began with this ...
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ArticlePhilip Glass Violin Concerto no.2
Philip Glass's Second Violin Concerto received its European premiere on 17 April 2010 at London's Royal Festival Hall. Subtitled 'The American Four Seasons' it was reviewed by Tim Homfray in the July 2010 edition of The Strad: 'The second movement (summer?) was peaceful and beautiful, with [soloist ...
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ArticleTitanic bandleader Wallace Hartley's letter goes up for auction
A letter written by Titanic violinist and bandleader Wallace Hartley aboard the doomed ship is set to be sold on 20 April at an auction in Wiltshire, UK. The letter, which Hartley wrote to his parents four days before the disaster, is being sold by Henry ...
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ArticleInfluential French-Canadian violin pedagogue Jean Cousineau dies at the age of 75
The French-Canadian violinist, pedagogue and composer Jean Cousineau has died in Montreal at the age of 75. He was hailed by Shin'ichi Suzuki as the most important violin teacher in North America for his influential work with early learners, and the Montreal academy that he established has ...
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ArticleElias and Heath quartets feature among nominees for UK's RPS Music Awards
The Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) has unveiled the shortlist for its annual music awards. The awards are among the most prestigious given for live classical music-making in the UK. The Elias Quartet (pictured) and Sheffield-based promoter Music in the Round are both shortlisted in the Chamber ...
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ArticleCanadian violinist Andrew Dawes receives Governor General's lifetime achievement award
Canadian violinist Andrew Dawes is to receive a lifetime achievement award as part of the 2013 Governor General's Performing Arts Awards. Dawes, 73, is one of six award-winners, each of whom will receive C$25,000. Dawes is best known as first violinist of the Orford Quartet, with ...
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ArticleThe Beaux Arts plays Dvorák
The Beaux Arts Trio performs the Andante from Dvorák's 'Dumky' Piano Trio op.90. The trio had its first performance on 11 April 1891.
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ArticlePeter Schidlof plays Walton's Viola Concerto: second movement
Peter Schidlof (1922–87), the Amadeus Quartet's violist, performs the second movement of William Walton's Viola Concerto on BBC Two in 1968. UPDATE (26 March 2014): His instrument, the 1719 'Macdonald' Stradivarius viola, is being offered for sale by Sotheby's and Ingles & Hayday. Click here to ...
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ArticleBeethoven's op.74 - Allegretto con Variazioni
In the May issue, violist Simon Aspell of the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet is asked to name one of the greatest chamber music pieces for viola. He selects the viola variation in the last movement of Beethoven's String Quartet op.74 'Harp': 'I think this variation stands in relief ...
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ArticleYo-Yo Ma takes centre stage on Arts Advocacy Day in the US
The cellist and arts education campaigner Yo-Yo Ma played a leading role in Arts Advocacy Day in the US on Monday. The highlight of the day, which was sponsored by Americans for the Arts, the national arts advocacy organisation, was a lecture given by Ma in Washington DC's ...
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ArticleLast-minute deal between St Paul Chamber Orchestra musicians and management is set to end lock-out
The six-month lock-out of St Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO) musicians may be about to end after the players reached a tentative deal with SPCO management yesterday. The musicians must now vote to accept the agreement, which calls for their annual pay to be cut by $15,000 ...
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ArticleYo-Yo Ma and Lil Buck perform 'The Swan'
Yo-Yo Ma performing Saint-Saëns's 'The Swan' with young dancer Lil Buck in 2011. The two performed the same piece during Ma's lecture in Washington DC on 8 April 2013 for Arts Advocacy Day.
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ArticleIvry Gitlis, movie star: Legendary violinist back on screen at the age of 90 in new French comedy
The great violinist Ivry Gitlis stars in a new film that opens in French cinemas tomorrow. In the Danièle Thompson-directed 'Des gens qui s'embrassent' (People Kissing), Gitlis plays Aron (pictured), the patriarch of a Jewish family that comes together for a funeral and a wedding. Comedic tensions ...
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ArticleBrothers Amati viola is returned to Italian soloist after legal tussle over ownership
The Italian soloist and conductor Luigi Alberto Bianchi has been confirmed as the owner of a 1595 Brothers Amati viola following a lengthy legal dispute with an insurance company, reports L'Inviato. The viola (pictured), which was commissioned for the Medici family, is known as the ...
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ArticleLeonid Kogan's Queen Elisabeth performance
On 9 May 1951 the Queen Elisabeth Competition for violin was held for the first time (under that name) in Brussels, Belgium. Formerly known as the Ysaÿe Competition, it ran until 26 May, with Leonid Kogan taking the first prize. Here's a performance of the Sarabande from ...
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ArticleStravinsky's 'Dumbarton Oaks'
On 8 May 1938 Nadia Boulanger conducted the private premiere of Stravinsky's Concerto in E flat major 'Dumbarton Oaks'. Commissioned for Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss, it was named after their estate near Washington DC. Nicholas Ward conducts this performance by the Northern Chamber Orchestra. ...
