Japanese Violinists’ Birtdays in June (2) – WATANABE Shigeo 渡辺 茂夫
In my last blog I mentioned that the fate of WATANABE Shigeo 渡辺 茂夫 (1941–1999), whose birthday falls on 26 June, seems like Japan’s answer to that of the Polish violin prodigy Josef Hassid (1923–50). However, the two violinists actually have little in common beyond being violinists from an early…