European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                My playing to f kind of transmitter. ,.to get in touch with the wort of out  Gidon Kremer on the Road again. And again by Bernard Holland new York times  furnished Manha an apartment nol Long ago. Gidon Kremer said he had changed tils mind the Man Herbert von k Karajan called the greatest violinist in fun world was exhausted from his concer 1 ?3 hours before Ana Stilt Jet lagged irom a trans Atlantic flight tour Days earlier there were 10 Days ahead in which he planned to rest before a new round of concerts but on the Spur Mohe moment he was flying Back to Europe thai Ulter noon to be Wilh fronds going Home Gidon Kremer has no Home there is a studio a Lucerne Switzerland apartments in new York and pans parents in Heidelberg. West Germany and a soviet passport. He is rarely in any of Hose places More than to weeks a a Lime. Where one compares his life to the legend of the flying dutchman the phantom ship doomed never 10 have ils own Safe Harbor Gidon Kramer smiles Wolfi a  sadness he is a Man of medium height slightly stooped in the Way we imagine rec Paganini might have been but where the Garcal italian wizard of the violin radiated sinister ugliness. Kuerner s comeliness is More appealing More vulnerable for tremor tha Karajan endorsement is As Muffi Burden As Blessing pc no Ono questions the Power of his playing to provoke admiration or just Plain provoke. Kremer s restless and inquisitive energies plus a certain perversity