With strings attached- Reminiscences and reflections, 2nd edition, enlarged
With strings attached- Reminiscences and reflections, 2nd edition, enlarge (written work, Book)
| Listening experiences | 1432302784249: But in the field of music we are never, in the lon... 1432304002883: The standing of my first music school and the leve... 1432304520357: One April day I came across some unfamiliar termin... 1432305043715: One thing that stands out in my mind while I am th... 1432305607928: It was here [shows at a summer theater in a small ... 1432307228695: Parallel with the somewhat stuffy atmosphere of th... 1432307456961: This mere boy [Ernst von Lengyel]- who died of tub... 1432308000014: I was still surrounded by quaint personalities lik... 1432308290160: With an uncle leading the theater band, it was ine... 1432308447524: A memory I cherish of those days is David Popper’s... 1432308667674: This Popper Jubilee brings to mind another celebra... 1432309856226: I leave to the last what is perhaps the most spect... 1432310151996: The headliner of them all was Abbie Mitchell and h... 1432473071167: This first winter (1905-1906) in Germany was rich ... 1432473516578: The management under which I made my debut was as ... 1432473872678: From a strictly musical point of view I owe her [N... 1432473995640: Another song associated with this period, which fo... 1432474253690: It must have been Blanche Marchesi who gave me sea... 1432474467930: My natural laziness and the unwonted amenities of ... 1432474782192: My first public performance of a Beethoven sonata,... 1432474916787: Such “problem pictures” had a parallel in music, t... 1432475003169: My narrow, purely vocational interest in the great... 1432475403873: What worlds Busoni opened up for me! Listening to ... 1432475566978: When I came to Berlin in 1905 thus inadequately eq... 1432475703804: I remember rehearing Willy Burmester in Berlin in ... 1432475777981: Let any concert-goer of the 1920s who heard Burmes... 1432475924335: Although most of the great or near great at the tu... 1432547330568: This feeling [that a new quality had been added to... 1432547869139: But perhaps it is easier to judge of the new trend... 1432658786275: Juxtapositions like these would also show us bette... 1432658916753: The unsuspecting millions are also none the wiser ... 1432659496850: The circumstances that led to my intimate connecti... 1432659858995: This led to the three performances under his [Buso... 1432660038015: In Berlin it was Sibelius who came to the artist’s... 1432660182603: We know that Fritz Kreisler “made” the Elgar Conce... 1432734414313: There is that other Elman [Mischa Elman] première ... 1432734601552: But there is another and less obvious factor in th... 1432735275994: Among these [memories of collaboration with compos... 1432735389700: A glance at some of the pages showed me that here ... 1432735695851: And when in 1937 Queen Elizabeth of Belgium – whos... 1433011883857: A parallel to this [impact of Ysaÿes interpretativ... 1433012233343: When I saw Bloch, soon after the outbreak of World... 1433012407761: I was “visited upon" by a famous Russian musicolog... 1433012639019: But certainly in the long run I had the best of th... 1433012802782: That memorable session at Blüthner’s piano store i... 1433012951359: Now, twenty years later, there we were, both livin... 1433018105120: I see Bartók [Béla Bartók] in his villa in the hil... 1433018307180: He [Nikolas Nabokov] would show me sketches of the... 1433108529006: It is probably my intense admiration for Ravel the... 1433110052707: It is the atmosphere of that long afternoon [rehea... 1433110237480: Some ten or fifteen years ago, a sort of epidemic ... 1433110399704: We performers who have had the advantage of famili... 1433244862218: Certain music produces physical discomfort in some... 1433265048913: At the beginning of the Listen article [“Reflectio... 1433265142166: If these private recordings of our own performance... 1433265275149: I seem to have been inclined, from those early day... 1433265583370: But the picturesqueness and the novelty of everyth... 1433265752847: And when, soon afterwards, the strike having been ... 1433265883261: I can testify from personal experience that in for... 1433266042750: In some musically overbred setups, on the other h... 1433266325401: I confess to being especially interested in one ph... 1433266534273: During World War II when I almost invariably start... 1433266732296: Thus “lucrative” tours up and down Denmark’s Jutla... 1433267073762: Carl Friedberg, the partner of my scheduled sonata... 1433267261029: I have since had the experience in Havana of heari... 1433267374316: Entrance examinations were lax, to say the least, ... 1433267546203: Some of my pupils would have rated less compliment... 1433267701295: Sometimes in classes there were performances by pu... 1433267919224: My heart thanks for sending me the concerto which ... 1433268117759: To live in a place as Stravinsky-conscious as Anse... 1433268406793: To come back to Godet’s musical beliefs, I think h... 1433268519594: Frequent trips to Paris which was to become our ho... 1433268723440: Altogether, conditions were not very different fro... 1433268856979: The Russian people still had to make the best of w... 1433269208170: A technical achievement more in my line, though ju... 1433269647072: If such manifestations were typically Russian rath... 1433269887805: I was rewarded with some of the most lasting impre... 1433270072681: At reception given for me at VOX [Society for Cult... 1433270334612: As it happened, I had been present at that memorab... 1433270519557: So I had in a way been “in” on his [Stokowski] con... 1433270632924: This comparison of performances (whether of those ... 1433270742601: This second season [in America] and the following ... 1433270905945: I had already played with Koussevitzky and the lat... 1434459308802: This same “unplanned” season brought me another th... 1434459517408: Naturally I was not allowed to take the “Swan” Str... 1434459619530: One of my visits to Harlem was made in the company... 1434459756833: In the light of what he was telling me, the dancin... 1434459862554: When Bartók played for me some records he had made... 1434460061659: In Bartók’s second sonata there was something barb... 1434460203835: Folklore memories that mean much to me are those o... 1434460364260: Such contacts got me into the habit of being on th... 1434460466955: Again, when I checked into my Pullman space on som... 1434460706391: As for friends of music without a capital F or M, ... 1434460982453: One of my appearances at the famous old 'Museums-G... 1434461847574: During the stir created by Kreisler’s first perfor... 1434462032903: Édouard Risler and Lucien Capet the Frenchmen, Tos... 1434462179785: I thought of how the intuitiveness of artists like... 1434462557437: Another satisfaction of this decade was being entr... 1434462805694: When the composer [Frank Martin] sent me his manus... 1434463119187: Music making in Prades with Casals, playing the Fo... 1434463242214: What can one say of the undiminished vitality of C... 1434463349675: The rediscovery of Fournier’s immense talent when ... 1434463418818: Nathan Milstein, who happened to be playing in Mon... |
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| published in | 1967 |
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| ISBN | 003567125 |
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