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OCTOBER
2004
Issue
122
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Lucky Man
British violinist Daniel Hope has the music world on a string.
Inge Kjemtrup reports.
Storybook
Beginning
Laurence Vittes
visits the Capuçon brothers—one a cellist, the other
a violinist—as they set out to conquer America.
The
Greatest Violin Sonata That J.S. Bach Never Wrote
Is the classic
Toccata and Fugue in D minor for organ really a lost violin piece?
And just who wrote it? Bruce Fox-Lefriche debunks myths.
With music to play.
Focus
on International
Artists
MODERN MOTIF:
Arditti Quartet celebrates 30 years of collaboration with contemporary
composers. By Inge
Kjemtrup; MERGING LANES: Mexican jazz cellist Jorge Mendoza
moves out and up. By David Templeton. With music to play;
HITTING NEW HEIGHTS: South Korea hosts its first Aspen-style summer
music festival, featuring the International Sejong Soloists. By
Ben Finane.
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DEPARTMENTS
News & Notes
Honoring
the activist side of Pablo Casals, instruments compete at VSA, Strads
return to Cremona, rhymes with celli, plus Benchmarks.
Encore
Cliff McGann
visits the fiddlin' lighthouse keeper.
MUSIC
& MUSICIANS
Strings
101
James Reel uncovers sound advice for good intonation.
Play
It!
James Keough learns to love Charles Ives. With music to play.
Letter
from Cremona
Arnold Steinhardt takes his Storioni back to its home town.
REVIEWS
In
Print
Viola transcriptions,
Bach urtexts, cello duets, and Sleeping with Schubert.
On
Record
An Irish-music
dream team, a Dutch violin virtuoso, the Amadeus Quartet, Vassar Clements,
and more.
On
Stage
Savoring the New York season's best trios.
WORKBENCH
Shop
Visit
Anne Cole hides
whimsical designs inside her fiddles. By Laura Schiller
New Products
Online instrument
superstore, a new bridge
pickup system, and more. Heather K. Scott reports.
Cover:
Daniel Hope. Photographer: Marco Borggreve/Warner Classics
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