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The clearest examples of charismatic musicianship that I've seen lately have been in performances by Yuri Bashmet, the Russian violist, who was in New York not long ago, conducting his own chamber orchestra at Carnegie Hall and playing with the Philharmonic under Kurt Masur.
And so the violist gazes outward from the stage, and the audience, mulling over the biographical background with its air of '60s mayhem and long-lost Soviet dissident hipness, is bound to wonder: Is this a Promethean figure, Hendrix-like, standing before us?
It was because the charismatic in music is genuinely awe-inspiring, and to watch the violist trek across Schnittke's barbarous Russian landscape was like watching humanity and inhumanity in ferocious battle, waging every grand and noble struggle that we associate with the 19 th -century violin concertos, except without any of the reassuring triumphalism that, among 19 th -century composers, was indistinguishable from a finale.
He then spins this not especially supportive datum (think how many fewer records were released in 1967) by saying how it should be compared not with the sales of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones but with those of minimalist composer La Monte Young, whose influence, via violist John Cale, the Velvets brought to rock 'n' roll.