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* Carmen Fantasy - Franz Waxman * Leonid Kogan Maxim Vengerov Leonid Borisovich Kogan (Russian; November 14, 1924 – December 17, 1982) was a preeminent Soviet violinist during the 20th century. Many consider him to be among the greatest violinists of the 20th century. In particular, he is considered to have been one of the greatest representatives of the Soviet School of violin playing. Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov is an Israeli violinist, violist, and conductor who was born in the Soviet Union. He was born on 20 August 1974 in Novosibirsk, to a family with a strong musical tradition. His mother, Larisa Borisovna Vengorova, sang and conducted a 500 voice orchestra, and his father, Aleksandr Vengerov, played first oboe in the local philharmonic. Mr. Vengerov has received numerous awards including the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (with Orchestra) (2003), two Gramophone Classical Music Awards (1994, 1995), a Classic Brit Award (2004), five Edison Classical Music Awards (1995, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2004), two Echo Music Prizes (1997, 2003) and a World Economic Forum Crystal award (2007) - honouring artists who have used their art to improve the state of the world. 12 year old Yesong Sophie Lee (born September 25, 2003) from the USA performing Waxman's 'Carmen Fantasy' with collaborative pianist Tadashi Imai- in the junior division semi-final round of the 2016 Menuhin International Violin Competition at the Royal Academy of Music in London, England A student of Simon James, Hiro David and Jan Coleman in Seattle, Sophie is a former 1st prize winner at the 2015 American MTNA National Junior Strings Competition – and was awarded 1st prize at the 2016 Junior Menuhin Competition, in London. ____________________________________________________________________ - Franz Waxman - (Dec. 24,1906 – Feb. 24,1967) Franz Waxman was a German and American composer of Jewish descent, known primarily for his work in the film music genre. His film scores include Bride of Frankenstein, Rebecca, Sunset Boulevard, A Place in the Sun, Stalag 17, Rear Window, Peyton Place, The Nun's Story, and Taras Bulba. He received twelve Academy Award nominations, and won two Oscars in consecutive years (for Sunset Boulevard and A Place in the Sun). He also received a Golden Globe Award for the former film. Bernard Herrmann said that the score for Taras Bulba was the most wonderful thing. He also composed concert works, including the oratorio Joshua (1959), and The Song of Terezin (1965), a work for orchestra, chorus, and children's chorus based upon poetry written by children in the Theresienstadt concentration camp during World War II. Waxman also founded the Los Angeles Music Festival in 1947 with which he conducted a number of West Coast premieres by fellow film composers, and concert composers alike. Franz Waxman led a variety of musical lives as composer, conductor and impresario. He was born in Konigshutte, Upper Silesia, Germany, on December 24, 1906, and was the youngest of six children. At the age of three Waxman suffered a serious eye injury involving boiling water tipped from a stove, which left his vision permanently impaired. No one in the family was musical except Franz, who started piano lessons at the age of seven. His father was an industrialist, and not believing his son could earn a living in music, encouraged him in a banking career. He worked for two and a half years as a teller and used his salary to pay for lessons in piano, harmony and composition. He then quit the bank and moved to Dresden and then to Berlin to study music. In 1923, at age 16, Waxman enrolled in the Dresden Music Academy and studied composition and conducting. Waxman lived from the money he made playing popular music and managed to put himself through school. While working as a pianist with the Weintraub Syncopators, a dance band, Waxman met Frederick Hollander, who eventually introduced Waxman to the eminent conductor Bruno Walter.
Waxman worked as an orchestrator for the German film industry, including Hollander’s score for The Blue Angel (1930). Waxman’s first dramatic score was for the film Liliom (1934). That year Waxman suffered a severe beating by Nazi sympathisers in Berlin that led him to leave Germany and move with his wife first to Paris, and soon after to Hollywood. Began his film career with UFA in 1930 and scored a number of German films before leaving the country in 1934. Waxman subsequently moved to the US, where he emerged as one of Hollywood's finest and most prolific composers of the 1940s and 50s. Adept at psychologically laden scores and romantic or fantastic material, Waxman contributed to several Hitchcock films, notably "Rebecca" (1940) and "Rear Window" (1954); other outstanding credits include "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935), "The Philadelphia Story" (1940), "Mr. Skeffington" (1944),
"Humoresque" (1946) and "Sunset Boulevard" (1950). Franz Waxman received many honors during his lifetime, including the Cross of Merit from the Federal Republic of West Germany, honorary memberships in the Mahler Society and the International Society of Arts and Letters, and an honorary doctorate of letters and humanities from Columbia College. He died February 24, 1967, in Los Angeles at the age of 60. 12/13/2017 Water-lily |