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ConcertsWhen the reviewer of Chicago's American searched for words to describe the incomparable cellist Janos Starker, he wrote: Janos Starker is the king of cellists, and having said that, what more is there to say? Starker, who is considered one of the great musical minds of our time, will join the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra led by Music Director Frederik Prausnitz at the third pair of subscription concerts on( October 25 and 27, playing Antonin Dvorak's Cello Concerto in B minor. Op. 104. Also on the program are the Second Orchestral Set by the American composer Charles Ives, and Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. The concerts will take place on Thursday evening, October 25, at Henninger auditorium and on Saturday evening, October 27, at Corcoran auditorium. Both' concerts begin at 8:30 p.m.Starker will come to Syracuse from Australia, where he has begun a season of globe-encircling concert appearances, with leading orchestras, in solo recitals, and teaching master classes.Now at the pinnacle of his career. Starker spent a busy 1972-73 concert season, appearing on three different occasions in New York, one with the New York Philharmonic. A spring tour of Europe was followed by three concerts at Chicago's Ravinia Festival. New York and Chicago both heard solo recitals of unaccompanied works for cello-—a Starker specialty—when he played two Bach Suites and the Kodaiy Sonata to critical enthusiasm and standing ovations.The Budapest-born musician emigrated to the United States in 1948 after a career as a child prodigy and posts as principal cellist with the Budapest Opera and Philharmonic Orchestras. After serving as principal cellist with the Dallas and Chicago Symphonies and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Starker joined the faculty of Indiana University, combining a busy teaching schedule with an active concert career.In spite of all this, and the fact that he is the most recorded cellist in history, Starker himself suspects' that he wiit be best remembered for an entirely different accomplishment: having found a new use for the hole. He is the inventor of the Starker Bridge, a patented device so simple as to be almost silly, as he puts it. Bydrilling cone-shaped holes into the wooden bridge which rests on the body of the stringed instrument, he created something akin to a miniature pre-amplification system, making a $200 instrument sound like one costing $1500.Starker is also a great and enthusiastic teacher. He adds, string seminars and master classes to his concert appearances wherever possible and attempts, to include much more than mere string technique in them. While in Syracuse, he w i II spend an afternoon coaching the Syracuse Symphony Training Orchestra, made up of serious young musicians who want the experience of playing orchestral music under professional conditions.Starker will also appear with the Syracuse Symphony at a concert jn Massena on Friday evening, October 26.A
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Plattsburgh Cardinal Points
Plattsburgh, New York, US
Thu, Oct 25, 1973
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