A family affair
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Dmitry Sikovetsky, one of the most sought-after soloists in the world, is the son of violinist Julian Sitkovetsky and the pianist Bella Davidovich, so he had a musical destiny from birth. His father, winner of the 1945 All Soviet Competition, died at age 32 when Dmitry was three. His mother won the 1949 Warsaw Chopin Competition and they first played together in public when he won the international Concertino competition in Prague at the age of 12. He attended the Central Music School in Moscow but found family rivalries suffocating so he went to America in 1977 when he was 23. He trained at the School of Music in New York where his father's name was unknown and won first prize in the 1979 Kreisler Competition in Vienna.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1992
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The banned play on
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On May 4, 1993 the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra gave a concert of works by Mendelssohn, Korngold, Hindemith and Weill, a programme that would have been impossible in Nazi Germany 50 years ago in 1943. All four of these composers were banned, their compositions branded degenerate for reasons of jazz, Jewish connections, atonality or left wing associations. Such attacks on non-Aryan art began before Hitler came to power. The exhibition Entartete Musik or Degenerate Music, held in Dusseldorf in 1938, drew thousands of Germans to examine what they was not supposed to hear or see.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1993
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Fiddling for his supper
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German violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann, 28, has two Stradivarius instruments. He studied with Belgian Herman Krebbers and models himself on Russian David Oistrakh. He has a relaxed style and prefers to express his personality rather than performing music with perfect precision. He won the 1976 Jugend Musiziert when he was 11 and performed at the Salzburg Festival when he was 17. He played with the Berlin Philharmonic aged 20, followed by other major orchestras.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1993
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