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editor's NOTE
Aug 01, 2008; Cahill, Greg ... THIS ELECTION YEAR IS ALL ABOUT CHANGE-at least every politician wants to be known in 2008 as a change agent. And our annual Education Issue finds the string world right in step with that sentiment. Our cover subject, violinist and educator Midori Goto, has been chairing the string department ...
STRINGS
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Exciting new developments at Strings!. We're pleased to announce Strings will be published monthly starting with the next issue. You'll see us on the newsstand or in the mail 12 times a year, rather than ten, because we're replacing our two combined summer issues with four separate monthly ...
readers WRITE
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... THOSE WHO FORGET THE PAST One can only wish that music had charms to soften savage regimes (Editor's Note, May 2008). But a moment's reflection on the elevated musical taste of the Nazis dashes that appealing fantasy. By accepting Kirn Jong-il's invitation to perform in Pyongyang, the ...
Kirshbaum Cache
Aug 01, 2008; Williams, Rory ... University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music boasts of a new era, and it turns out the school is justified. Violin virtuoso and education-outreach specialist MIDORI is settling into her third year as chair of the strings program, and world-famous Israeli recitalist HAGAISHAHAM ...
A 'PENNY' FOR YOUR THOUGHTS
Aug 01, 2008; Cahill, Greg ... A rare Italian violin that has been described as one of Antonio Stradivari's "most feminine" instrumerits, "The Penny" Strad, circa 1700, fetched $1.2 million at a Christie's auction this spring. The anonymous buyer paid well below the record-setting $3.5 million brought by "The Hammer" Strad in ...
bench MARKS
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Tijuana Twosome HERB ALPERT will have another music school named after him after giving $15 million to the school of music at the California Institute of the Arts, which will be the HERB ALPERT SCHOOL OF MUSIC. In November. Alpert pledged $30 million to University of California at Los ...
Chamber Music at La Jolla
Aug 01, 2008; Reel, James ... La Jolla SUMMERFEST 2008 will stretch across the August calendar with mostly chambermusic performances, and will feature artists as celebrated as the TOKYO STRING QUARTET and as unfamiliar as the SONORA STRING QUARTET. Never heard of it? That's because it's a new group formed by Juilliard ...
Passings
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... AMADEUS QUARTET second violinist SIEGMUND NISSEL died May 21 in his London home. He was 86. Born in Munich, Nissel formed the beginnings of the quartet with violist PETER SCHIDLOF when the two met at a British internment camp during World War Il in 1940. The ensemble made its debut in 1948 in ...
Soul of the Instrument
Aug 01, 2008; Kazarian, Cindi ... Augusta Read Thomas on the inner life of 'Chant' for viola and piano LISTENING TO AUGUSTA READ THOMAS talk about her music is as exciting as listening to the music itself. Her voice is animated, exuberant, full of life, and infused with the same passion and energy instilled in her ...
Offen Forgotten
Aug 01, 2008; Christopher, Paul Edward ... Dusting off the overlooked cello duets of Jacques Offenbach ONE OF THE GREATEST PLEASURES of being a cellist is performing cello duets. The warm, conversational sound of two cellos, shared with a colleague, has enchanted me throughout my career. Unfortunately the cello duet is a genre ...
Kid's Play
Aug 01, 2008; Schiller, Laura ... Chamber music: It's not just for grown-ups anymore THE AUDI TRIO RECENTLY MADE its public debut. The ensemblecomprised of my nephew violinist Benjamin, 10; and nieces, cellist Arella, 9, and pianist Leora, 7-performed one of Brahms' Hungarian Dances, arranged for kid trio. I'd ...
Getting Back to Basics
Aug 01, 2008; O'Connor, Mark ... A rigorous self-reexamination of fundamentals yields rich rewards Editor's Note: In February, Mark O'Connor e-mailed a newsletter noting that, after working extensively on his Americana Symphony, the violinist had recently reprised his solo violin concert after a ten-year hiatus. All ...
Catching the 'Red Eye'
Aug 01, 2008; Curley, Clyde ... Swedish Music and Dance Weekend is a family affair Dear Reader, It's a Saturday morning in October here in the rolling farm country of southwestern Wisconsin. I'm sitting in the historic 1882 Plum Grove Church, sun streaming through the high-arched windows, while outside ...
On the Road
Aug 01, 2008; Summer, Mark ... Turtle Island Quartet takes the 'Trane to Europe and discovers kindred spirits Dear Reader, My recent trip to Germany and Austria began with an exercise in frustration. After schlepping my cello, computer bag, and another carry-on bag to three different gates at the San Francisco ...
POWER SURGE
Aug 01, 2008; Kjemtrup, Inge ... British violist Lawrence Power might be just plain lucky, but then how to explain all that talent? William Primrose would have been disappointed. The great Scottish violist spent his life promoting the instrument, yet 25 years after his death, just a handful of violists are enjoying the ...
A Force for Change
Aug 01, 2008; Reel, James ... In her third year at the reins at the USC Thornton School of Music's string department, Midori is reshaping collegiate string education in Southern California 2008 education guide Yes, it took tireless practice and dedication for Midori Goto, at age 11, to become a pigtailed ...
Mariachi Rising
Aug 01, 2008; Sullivan, Patrick ... Mexico's violin-driven folk music takes a starring role in American string-music education 2008 education guide The young man had a shaved head, a surly attitude, and a brother in a gang. Even keeping him from dropping out of school seemed like a daunting task to Mark Fogelquist, ...
Beethoven: The Late String Quartets-Op. 127, 130, 131, 132, 133, 135
Aug 01, 2008; Eisler, Edith ... Beethoven: The Late String Quartets-Op. 127, 130, 131, 132, 133, 135. Orion String Quartet: Daniel and Todd Phillips, alternating violins; Steven Tenenbom, viola; Timothy Eddy, cello. (KOCH International Classics 7683) A Stellar Performance The Orions deliver a luminous ...
Ernst: Elegy, Op. 10; Othello Fantasy, Op.11; Six Studies for solo violin
Aug 01, 2008; Kazarian, Cindi ... Ernst: Elegy, Op. 10; Othello Fantasy, Op.11; Six Studies for solo violin. IIya Gringolts, violin; Ashley Wass, piano. (Hyperlon 67619) Moravian violinist and composer Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1814-1865) is far less wellknown than the great Niccolò Paganini, a man he idolized and whose ...
Wieniawski: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22; Paganini: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in D major, Op. 6, Moto Perpetuo; Saint-Saëns: Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28; Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20; Dinicu: Hora Staccato
Aug 01, 2008; Eisler, Edith ... Wieniawski: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22; Paganini: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in D major, Op. 6, Moto Perpetuo; Saint-Saëns: Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28; Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20; Dinicu: Hora Staccato. Michael Rabin, violin; ...