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Sunday, November 6, 2011, 3pm Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) granting that firm publication rights for all of Hertz Hall String in E-flat major, Op. 51 his future compositions. The E-flat (Op. 51) was writ- Composed in 1878–1879. Premiered on July 29, ten in response to a request from Jean Becker, Takács Quartet 1879, in Berlin by the Joachim Quartet. leader of the Florentine Quartet, for a new work in Dvořák’s best “Slavonic” style. Dvořák, usu- Edward Dusinberre first With the lightning success of his ally a fast worker, began the piece on Christmas Károly Schranz second violin of 1878, Antonín Dvořák became one of his Day, but he took three months to finish it be- Geraldine Walther day’s most popular—and busiest—composers. cause of the many other projects to which he Just three years before, when he was in such dire had committed himself in the excitement of his András Fejér financial straits that the city officials of Prague growing fame. The first performance, a private with certified his poverty, he entered some of his one, was given on July 29, 1879, at the Berlin works in a competition in Vienna for struggling home of by his celebrated quar- Scott Pingel composers. He won, and the distinguished jury tet; Becker and the Florentine first played it on members, including and the their tour of Switzerland in November and fre- powerful critic Eduard Hanslick, took on their quently thereafter. The E-flat Quartet remains PROGRAM young Czech colleague as a protégé. Brahms one of Dvořák’s most popular contributions to insisted that his publisher, Fritz Simrock, issue the genre. Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 51 some of Dvořák’s music, and that he commission As with other of his works of this period (the (1878–1879) a new work from him. The result of Simrock’s Slavonic Dances, the A major String , the order, modeled on Brahms’s Hungarian Dances, , the Slavonic Rhapsodies, the Mazurek Allegro ma non troppo was the Slavonic Dances, which, immediately for Violin), the E-flat Quartet is deeply imbued (Elegie): Andante con moto — Vivace — upon their publication in August 1878, created with the spirit and style of the music of Dvořák’s Andante con moto — Presto a sensation. Demands for more of Dvořák’s mu- native Bohemia. “I am just an ordinary Czech Romanze: Andante con moto sic came from publishers, conductors, chamber musician,” he insisted. The roots of his love Finale: Allegro assai music ensembles, choral societies and soloists. for the country’s indigenous songs and dances During a single trip to Berlin in the autumn of reached into his earliest childhood. His father (1732–1809) String Quartet in D major, Op. 64, No. 5, 1878, he sold the D minor Serenade, Slavonic played violin and zither, sang agreeably, and was “The Lark” (1790) Rhapsodies and to Simrock, and the a member of the village in Nelahozeves. Allegro moderato Op. 36 Piano Variations and Two Furiants for He encouraged his son to try the violin, and Adagio cantabile Piano to Simrock’s competitor Bote & Bock. soon the boy was entertaining his father’s clients Menuetto: Allegretto All of these works were issued in February, as (he was an innkeeper and butcher) with local Finale: Vivace quickly as they could be engraved and printed, dance tunes. When not playing, young Antonín and were sold out within two months. A Festival listened to the Gypsy bands or asked the older INTERMISSION March for the celebration of the Silver Wedding villagers to sing their timeless songs. Indelibly Anniversary of the Emperor and Empress of etched in his mind and his heart, the music of Dvořák for String Quartet and Double Bass in Austria at the Prague National Theater was writ- his countryside youth remained a touchstone G major, Op. 77 (1875) ten in February; in March, Dvořák finished the for his art throughout his life, and it finds one E-flat String Quartet (Op. 51); he delivered his of its most endearing transformations in the Allegro con fuoco setting of the 149th Psalm to the Prague Choral E-flat Quartet. Scherzo: Allegro vivace Society that same month; and the Mazurek for The Quartet opens with a serene main theme Poco andante Violin and (Op. 49) was premiered in that acquires some dance-like decorating figures Finale: Allegro assai Prague on March 29th. Dvořák somehow found reminiscent of the polka as it unfolds. The sec- time in his frantic schedule to again visit Berlin ond theme, initiated by the viola, is structured This performance is made possible, in part, by Corporate Sponsor Mechanics Bank to sell Simrock an entire satchel-full of songs, in short, simple phrases, like a folk song. The and Patron Sponsors Earl and June Cheit. chamber pieces, violin works and even an or- development section is mainly devoted to trans- chestral overture, and to conclude an agreement formations of the main theme and its associated Cal Performances’ 2011–2012 season is sponsored by Wells Fargo.

16 CAL PERFORMANCES CAL PERFORMANCES 17 PROGRAM NOTES PROGRAM NOTES polka rhythm. The themes are reversed in the Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) glorious days gone by....” Just two weeks later, on Sieber complained about this shady deal to recapitulation, with the second subject, given String Quartet in D major, Op. 64, No. 5, February 23, 1790, the wife of Prince Nicholas Haydn, the composer, who had been system- this time by the in octaves, coming first, “The Lark” died, and Haydn subsequently reported to atically victimized by publishers throughout his and the clear restatement of the principal subject Marianne, “The Prince is so overwhelmed at the career, replied without sympathy, “Thus Herr held in reserve until the coda. Composed in 1790. death of his lady that we have had to strain every Tost has swindled you; you can claim your dam- Thedumka was a traditional Slavic (especial- nerve to charm His Highness out of his sadness. ages in Vienna.”) Such entrepreneurial success ly Ukrainian) folk ballad of meditative charac- With the move in 1766 of Prince Nicholas I arranged a big program of for encouraged Tost to try his hand at business, and ter which often described heroic deeds. Dvořák Esterházy and his entire household from the the first three evenings…but the poor Prince by 1790, he had settled in Vienna as a cloth mer- adapted the form for a number of his works: the old family seat in Eisenstadt to the magnifi- fell into such profound melancholy on hearing chant. During that same year, he married Maria Dumka: Elegy for Piano (Op. 35, 1876); three of cent but isolated Esterháza Palace in the re- my favorite Adagio in D that I had my work cut Anna von Jerlischek, a wealthy lady attached the Slavonic Dances (Op. 46, No. 2, 1878; Op. claimed swamps of western Hungary, Haydn out to chase it away again with other pieces.” to the household of Prince Nicholas Esterházy, 76, Nos. 2 and 4, 1886); the slow movements of found himself rather thoroughly cut off from Throughout the spring and summer, Nicholas and he used her fortune as collateral for his bur- the A major (Op. 48, 1878) and the outside world, a situation that allowed him importuned Haydn constantly for diversion, re- geoning business. It is unknown whether Haydn the (Op. 81, 1887); the Furiant to experiment in his music and to administer fusing to let him visit Vienna for even a single dedicated the Op. 64 to him out ad- with Dumka for Piano (Op. 12, 1884); and undisturbed one of ’s outstanding musi- day. To Marianne, Haydn complained, “Now miration for his playing while in the Esterházy the “Dumky” Trio (Op. 90, 1890–1891). The cal establishments, but which also denied him I’m caught yet again and have to remain here.... orchestra, or for his assistance in the dealings dumka acquired various musical characteristics regular contact with the most fashionable musi- It is a sad thing to be a slave, but Providence will with Sieber (Tost also helped with the Viennese in different cultures (the composer once report- cal trends and performers of the day. He came to have it so, poor wretch that I am.” Haydn’s mis- publication of the Op. 64 Quartets), or upon edly asked the noted folklorist Ludvík Kuba at look forward with much eagerness to the short ery was soon ended, however, by the death of direct commission from the merchant and/or a chance coffee-house encounter, “Just what is time during the winter when the inclement the Prince himself on September 28th. Prince his new wife (Tost commissioned Mozart’s last a dumka, anyway?”), so Dvořák felt justified weather around the Neusiedler Lake made the Anton, Nicholas’s son and successor, cared little two String , K. 593 and K. 614, during in making his own formal interpretation of it. Palace uninhabitable, a period he spent renew- for music, so he dismissed the faithful family the following months), but the “Tost” Quartets For the second movement of the E-flat Quartet, ing acquaintances and striking business deals in composer, settled a generous pension upon him, are among the most lustrous jewels in the dia- he used a form of alternating sections of slow Vienna. During his visit to the imperial city in and told him that he was free to leave. Haydn dem of the composer’s chamber music, “perhaps thoughtful music and fast dancing music. January 1790, just before he was to begin his thir- bolted to Vienna so quickly that he did not even Haydn’s greatest single achievement of the peri- The Romanze, arranged along a formal tieth year of service to the Esterházys, he eagerly take time to pack his personal belongings. od—six flawless masterpieces,” wrote the noted arch—gentle and nocturnal at beginning and attended rehearsals for the premiere of Mozart’s One consolation for Haydn during the dif- Haydn authority H. C. Robbins Landon. end, more animated near its center—is, ac- Così fan tutte and socialized at every available ficult months of 1790 was the growing interna- The Op. 64 Quartets have always been cording to the composer’s biographer Otakar opportunity. Among those whom he saw most tional renown of his compositions. Amateur and among the most popular of Haydn’s chamber Sourek, “one of the pearls of Dvořák’s intimate frequently in Vienna were the Baron Gottfried professional performers throughout Europe and works. He presented them with great success on lyrics, a movement of bewitching variety of van Swieten, Dr. Peter Leopold von Genzinger England clamored for his music, and he com- several occasions during his first London visit in mood, whose expressive and formal transpar- and his wife, Marianne, and Johann Tost. posed steadily during the summer and autumn 1791 and 1792, and oversaw their English publi- ency reflect the composer’s fertility of invention Swieten was the Imperial Court Librarian of that year to meet the demand, concentrating cation in that city before he returned to Vienna. and mastery of the compositional art.” and an influential local patron of the arts who, his chief efforts on a splendid series of six quar- The fifth number of the set, the Quartet in D The theme of the sonata-form finale is based a few years later, was to provide the German li- tets that were published the following year as his major, commonly known as “The Lark” because on a boisterous Czech dance, the skacna. The brettos for Haydn’s oratorios The Creation and Op. 64. The Quartets were dedicated to Johann of its soaring first theme, is one of Haydn’s most movement’s second theme is a folkish melody of The Seasons. Genzinger was Prince Nicholas Tost, principal second violinist in Haydn’s or- familiar creations. (The sobriquet was not origi- initially somber cast that is humored into a hap- Esterházy’s personal physician, and it was in the chestra at Esterháza from 1783 to 1788. In 1789, nal with Haydn.) The Quartet opens with the pier mood as it entwines with the main theme bosom of the Genzinger family where Haydn Tost had gone to Paris to present himself as a burst of almost Schubertian lyricism that gave in the development. The recall of the themes in found an emotional fulfillment that had long soloist, and he was entrusted by Haydn to ne- the work its name. The second theme, which the recapitulation and a rousing coda bring this been missing from his childless marriage to his gotiate a deal for engraving two of his recent appears without strong demarcation, is a syn- splendid Quartet to an exuberant close. shrewish wife. Marianne von Genzinger became symphonies (Nos. 88 and 89) with the publisher copated motive in chordal texture enlivened by the most important correspondent of the com- Sieber during his visit. The sly Tost, however, occasional, brief flashes of heightened dynam- poser’s later years, and he wrote in his letters to sold Sieber not two, but three symphonies, the ics. A cascade of triplets ends the exposition sec- her in early February of his misery following his third being a piece by Adalbert Gyrowetz that tion, and serves as one of the principal elements return to Esterháza: “Now, here I sit in my des- the violinist passed off as Haydn’s. (Gyrowetz of the development that follows. A full reca- ert, forsaken, like a poor orphan, almost without had enormous difficulty later persuading French pitulation of the earlier themes rounds out the human society, sad, full of the memory of the musicians that this was indeed his work. When movement. The Adagio is a halcyon song for the

18 CAL PERFORMANCES CAL PERFORMANCES 19 PROGRAM NOTES ABOUT THE ARTISTS first violin (a tribute to Tost?) in which a short, F major Symphony and the Op. 38/Op. 78 ecognized as one of the world’s great en- somber episode provides contrast. The Menuetto Symphonic Variations.) Dvořák was furious, but Rsembles, the Takács Quartet plays with combines grace and rusticity in the inimitable the deed had been done, and the Quintet is most a unique blend of drama, warmth and humor, proportion that marks Haydn’s most charac- usually listed with its higher opus number. combining four distinct musical personalities to teristic specimens of the form, while the trio is The G major String Quintet did not need bring fresh insights to the string quartet reper- cast in a more serious-minded minor key. The fi- Simrock’s machinations for defense. The work, toire. Winners of the 2011 Award for Chamber nale is a dashing perpetuum mobile in three-part one of the first to show the composer’s growing Music and Song presented by the Royal (A–B–A) form. self-assurance and maturity during the years Philharmonic Society in London, the Takács after he received the Austrian Prize, is full of Quartet is based in Boulder at the University of typically Dvořákian delights. Its melodic profli- Colorado. The Quartet performs 90 concerts a Dvořák gacy brings to mind Brahms’s jealous lament: “I year worldwide, throughout Europe as well as Quintet for String Quartet and Double Bass should be glad if something occurred to me as a in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South in G major, Op. 77 main idea that only occurs to him by the way.” Korea. The 2010–2011 season included a Bartók Its first, second and concluding movements are cycle in Sydney, and a three-concert series fo- Tom Bachtell Composed in 1875. Premiered on March 18, 1876, infected with the rhythms and melodic leadings cusing on Schubert in (92nd by Beethoven, Bartók, Borodin, Brahms, in Prague. of the peasant music that he had lovingly stored Street Y) and at the University of Michigan, Chausson, Dvořák, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert in his heart and his head since childhood. The Ann Arbor. The 2011–2012 season will focus and Smetana. The ensemble’s recording of the Dvořák had just begun the G major String composer’s biographer Otto Sourek called the on the music of Janáček, Britten, Debussy and six Bartók string quartets received the 1998 Quintet when he learned, in February 1875, that Andante “one of the most entrancing slow move- Ravel, with performances in major cities across Gramophone Award for chamber music and, in Johannes Brahms and Eduard Hanslick had rec- ments in the whole of Dvořák’s chamber mu- the United States, Europe, Australia and New 1999, was nominated for a Grammy. In addition ommended to the Austrian Minister of Culture, sic…one flowing stream of passionate warmth, Zealand. This season also finds the Quartet col- to the Beethoven string quartet cycle recording, Karl Stremayer, that he be awarded the highest depth of feeling and powerfully affecting range laborating with Garrick Ohlsson and the ensemble’s other Decca recordings include prize granted under a competition for budding of mood.” The character of this Quintet, like Joyce Yang, and cellist Ralph Kirschbaum. Dvořák’s String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 51 composers in the provinces of the Habsburg em- that of its composer, is unaffected, sincere and The Quartet’s award-winning recordings and Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81, with pire. To celebrate, Dvořák took a short holiday, immediately friendly. include the complete Beethoven Cycle on the Andreas Haefliger; Schubert’s Trout a luxury he had previously been unable to af- Decca label. In 2005, the late Beethoven quartets Quintet with Mr. Haefliger, which was nomi- ford. He finished the Quintet in March when won Disc of the Year and the Chamber Award nated in 2000 for a Grammy; string quartets he returned to Prague, and submitted the score © 2011 Dr. Richard E. Rodda from BBC Music Magazine, a Gramophone by Smetana and Borodin; Schubert’s Quartet to a competition sponsored by the local Society Award and a Japanese Record Academy Award. in G major and “Notturno” with of Artists. It won, and the work was premiered Their recordings of the early and middle Mr. Haefliger; the three Brahms string quar- by the Society on March 18, 1876. At that first Beethoven quartets collected a Grammy Award, tets and Piano Quintet in F minor with pianist performance, the Quintet began with a move- another Gramophone Award, a Chamber Music András Schiff; Chausson’sConcerto for violin, ment marked Andante religioso that Dvořák of America Award and two further awards from piano and string quartet with violinist Joshua had adapted from the slow movement of his E the Japanese Recording Academy. Bell and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet; and minor String Quartet of 1870. He decided that In 2006, the Takács Quartet made their first Mozart’s String Quintets, K. 515 and 516, with the movement did not fit this venue either, and recording for Hyperion Records, of Schubert’s György Pauk, viola. he later reworked it as the Notturno for Strings, D804 and D810. A disc featuring Brahms’s The Quartet is known for innovative Op. 40. The Quintet, which the composer origi- Piano Quintet with Stephen Hough was re- programming. In 2007 it performed, with nally designated as his Op. 18, was subject to leased to great acclaim in November 2007 and Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour a disreputable bit of publishing subterfuge in was subsequently nominated for a Grammy. Hoffman, Everyman in Carnegie Hall, inspired 1888, when Fritz Simrock of Berlin, whose bank Brahms’s Quartets Opp. 51 and 67 were released by the Philip Roth novel. The group collaborates account was bursting with profits from the in fall 2008, and a disc featuring the Schumann regularly with the Hungarian folk ensemble sale of the Slavonic Dances, issued the score as Piano Quintet with Marc-André Hamelin was Muzsikás, performing a program that explores Op. 77 to make this early piece appear to be a released in late 2009. The complete Haydn the folk sources of Bartók’s music. The Takács (presumably, more valuable) work of Dvořák’s “Apponyi” Quartets, Opp. 71 and 74, will be performed a music and poetry program on a maturity. (Simrock performed similar margin- released in November 2011. 14-city U.S. tour with the poet Robert Pinsky. inflating, chronological legerdemain on the Op. The Quartet has also made 16 record- In 2010, the Quartet collaborated with the 27/Op. 80 String Quartet, the Op. 24/Op. 76 ings for the Decca label since 1988 of works Colorado Shakespeare Theatre and playwright

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David Morse in a production of Quartet, a play Purcell Room, South Bank Centre. Upon com- A native of Florida, she first picked up the vi- legend has it, his father was unwilling to listen set in Beethoven’s later years when he was writ- pletion of his studies at Juilliard, Mr. Dusinberre ola in a public school music program in Tampa. to a violin-upstart practicing. Since an early age, ing the A minor quartet, Op. 132. auditioned for the Takács Quartet, which he She went on to study at the Manhattan School his parents have held string quartet weekends, At the University of Colorado, the Takács joined in 1993. of Music with Lillian Fuchs and at the Curtis which for the young cellist were the most memo- Quartet has helped to develop a string program In July 2010, Mr. Dusinberre released a re- Institute with Michael Tree of the Guarneri rable of occasions—if not for the music, then for with a special emphasis on chamber music, cording of Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas No. 9 and Quartet. In 1979, she won first prize at the the glorious desserts his mother would prepare where students work in a nurturing environment 10 with pianist David Korevaar on the Decca International Competition. for those sessions. designed to help them develop their artistry. The label. Future projects include a performance of As soloist with the , Mr. Fejér was admitted to the Franz Liszt Quartet’s commitment to teaching is enhanced Brahms’s Double Concerto with András Fejér, she performed the U.S. premieres of such im- Academy of Music in 1975, where he was a pu- by summer residencies at the Aspen Festival and performances at the Plush Festival Dorset, portant works as Takemitsu’s A String Around pil of Ede Banda, András Mihály, Ferenc Rados and at the Music Academy of the West, Santa where he will play Beethoven’s Piano Trio, Autumn, Lieberson’s , Holloway and György Kurtág. That same year he founded Barbara. The Takács is a Visiting Quartet at the “The Ghost,” with Charles Owen and Louise Viola Concerto and Benjamin’s Viola, Viola. In the Takács String Quartet with three fellow Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. Hopkins, to be broadcast on BBC Radio 3. May 2002, she was soloist in William Schuman’s classmates. Although the Quartet has been his The Takács Quartet was formed in 1975 at Mr. Dusinberre enjoys writing about music. Concerto on Old English Rounds and the Britten sole professional focus since then, he does per- the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest by Gabor In connection with the Takács Quartet’s recent Double Concerto for violin and viola. form as a soloist occasionally as well. Takács-Nagy, Károly Schranz, Gabor Ormai Beethoven cycles in London and Madrid, he has In 1995, Ms. Walther was selected by Sir Mr. Fejér is married to a literature teacher. and András Fejér, while all four were students. written articles for The Strad and The Guardian. Georg Solti as a member of his Musicians of the They have three children and live in the Rockies, It first received international attention in 1977, Mr. Dusinberre lives in Boulder, Colorado, World, an orchestra composed of leading mu- where they enjoy year-round sunshine in beauti- winning First Prize and the Critics’ Prize at the with his wife Beth, an archeologist who teaches sicians from around the globe, for concerts in ful Boulder. When he is not on tour, he enjoys International String Quartet Competition in at the University of Colorado, and their son Geneva to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the reading, photography, tennis and hiking. Evian, France. The Quartet also won the Gold Sam. He enjoys hiking in the mountains near United Nations. She has participated in leading Medal at the 1978 Portsmouth and Bordeaux Boulder and going to the theater. Never known chamber music festivals, including Marlboro, Scott Pingel (double bass) began playing the Competitions and First Prizes at the Budapest as one of the more athletic members of his fam- Santa Fe, Tanglewood, Bridgehampton, Cape double bass at age 17 because of a strong interest International String Quartet Competition in ily, Mr. Dusinberre has nonetheless benefited Cod, Amelia Island, the Telluride, Seattle, and in jazz, Latin and . In 2004, at age 1978 and the Bratislava Competition in 1981. from Boulder’s healthy culture of embracing the Green music festivals, and Music@Menlo. She 29, he became principal bass of the San Francisco The Quartet made its North American debut outdoors. He currently has plans to start train- has collaborated with such artists as , Symphony. Previously he served as principal bass tour in 1982. Violinist Edward Dusinberre ing for the 2020 Bolder Boulder, sometime in and Jaime Laredo, and of the Charleston Symphony, performed with joined the Quartet in 1993 and violist Roger the future. has appeared as a guest artist with the Tokyo, the Metropolitan Opera, the Boston Symphony Tapping in 1995. Violist Geraldine Walther re- Vermeer, Guarneri, Lindsay, Cypress and St. at Tanglewood and the Metamorphosen placed Mr. Tapping in 2005. In 2001 the Takács Károly Schranz (second violin) was born in 1952 Lawrence quartets. She joined the Takács Chamber Orchestra, and served as guest prin- Quartet was awarded the Order of Merit of the in Budapest, Hungary. His first musical experi- Quartet as a regular member in fall 2005. cipal with the National Arts Center Orchestra Knight’s Cross of the Republic of Hungary, and ences were listening to gypsy bands in restau- In addition to her recordings for Hyperion in Canada. His festival appearances include in March 2011 each member of the Quartet was rants, which he has always admired for their vir- with the Takács Quartet, Ms. Walther’s record- Bellingham, Spoleto, Verbier, Tanglewood, awarded the Order of Merit Commander’s Cross tuosity and musicianship. He began playing the ings include Hindemith’s Trauermusik and Attergau/Salzburg and in collaboration with by the President of the Republic of Hungary. violin at age four, and at age 14 he entered the Der Schwanendreher with the San Francisco David Finckel and Joseph Silverstein at Music@ Béla Bártok Secondary Music School, where he Symphony (London/Decca), Paul Chihara’s Menlo. Mr. Pingel has taught master classes Edward Dusinberre (first violin) was born in met his future wife, also a violin student at the Golden Slumbers with the San Francisco at the Curtis Institute of Music, the Juilliard 1968 in Leamington Spa, England, and has school. He was the recipient of the Franz Liszt Chamber Singers (Albany), Lou Harrison’s School, the Colburn School, Manhattan School enjoyed playing the violin from a young age. Prize in 1983. Since 1986, Mr Schranz, his wife Threnody (New Albion) and, as a member of the of Music, Shanghai Conservatory and with the His early experiences as concertmaster of the and their three daughters have made their home Volkert Trio, Delectable Pieces (Con Brio). New World Symphony. His principal teachers National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain en- in Boulder, Colorado, where they often go hik- Ms. Walther is the mother of two grown were James Clute, Peter Lloyd and Timothy couraged him to choose music as a profession. ing. He also loves to play tennis. daughters and lives in Longmont, Colorado, Cobb. He earned a B.M. from the University He studied with the Ukrainian violinist Felix with her husband Tom. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, an M.M. from the Andrievsky at the Royal College of Music in Geraldine Walther (viola) was Principal Violist Manhattan School of Music and spent two years London and with Dorothy DeLay and Piotr of the San Francisco Symphony for 29 years, András Fejér (cello) was born in 1955 into a as a fellow at the New World Symphony. Milewski at the . having previously served as assistant principal musical family. His father was a cellist and In 1990, he won the British Violin Recital of the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Baltimore conductor, and his mother was a pianist. He Prize and gave his debut recital in London at the Symphony and the Miami Philharmonic. began playing the cello at age seven because, as

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