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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recital, reported New York Times Music Critic Howard Taubman. was "admirable"-but it got Taubman sore. The artist: 32-year-old, Philadelphia-born Violinist Berl Senofsky. The locale: the Metropolitan Museum's small Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium (700 seats). Wrote Taubman next day: "There is something gravely wrong here. Berl Senofsky is an American violinist who beat all comers to win first prize in the Brussels 1955 competition, and he gets to play in New York as guest of the Metropolitan's Young Artists Series. Leonid Kogan, a Russian violinist [TIME, Jan. 27], who won the Brussels prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Artist at Home | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

Last week the finalists gathered in the plush auditorium of the Palais des Beaux Arts under the careful scrutiny of 13 solemn-faced judges and the motherly gaze of Belgium's Queen Elisabeth, 78, patron of the Concours. Only one of five Americans, Philadelphia-born Berl Senofsky, 30, had survived the preliminaries ; all the Russians had made it. Senofsky, whose parents were born in the Ukraine, had studied at Juilliard, spent a hitch in the Army before becoming assistant concertmaster of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra five years ago. Dissatisfied with his progress, he quit his job, flew to Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: And Then There Was One | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

Bartle's opponent was Berl Berry, who bills himself as the world's largest Lincoln-Mercury dealer. Berry's style of living became the main issue of the campaign. Noting that Berry was promising lower taxes, Roe Bartle roared: "I have seen his lovely master bedroom with the especially designed bed ten feet wide and ten feet long. If a man can enjoy his night's rest in a bed of that type, he ought to be willing to pay more taxes than those of us who have te sleep in ordinary beds. If he desires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Scout Leader | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

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