Word: cellistic
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...Leopold Stokowski had only conducted a symphony orchestra once or twice before in his life, when, in 1909, he was appointed chief of the Cincinnati Symphony.) San Francisco-born Alfred Wallenstein and Kansas-born Karl Krueger lack neither talent nor experience. Wallenstein started his career as an infant-prodigy cellist at the age of six, toured South America as a side show with the late great Anna Pavlova, studied in Germany with famed Cellist Julius Klengel...
When he returned to the U.S. at 24, he was the finest of all U.S. cellists and one of the half-dozen best in the world. But Cellist Wallenstein stuck to orchestra playing, played for seven years with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony as first cellist for his intimate friend and patron, Arturo Toscanini. When Toscanini resigned from the Philharmonic in 1936, Wallenstein resigned...
Dunstedter's prize catch for the group is swarthy, pint-sized Private Woodrow Wilson Rich (famed boy-prodigy violinist Ruggiero Ricci)* and his cellist brother George Washington Rich. Wood Wilson Rich (who has developed a soldierly liking for hot dogs) sits in the middle of the second row of violinists, fiddles such Santa Ana numbers as Jive Bomber on his $3,000 Lorenzo Storione violin...
...instrumental stars: Benny Goodman's bass fiddler Artie Bernstein; 20th Century-Fox's concertmaster Felix Slatkin; Hal Kemp's ace trumpeter Mickey Bloom; Paramount's concertmaster Harry Bluestone (Master Sergeant Harry B. Blostein); Harry James's first trombonist Hoyt Bohannon; Toscanini's NBC cellist Edgar Lustgarten; Benny Goodman's hot trumpeter Manny Klein...
Milstein's talk is mostly about war or politics. He reads biography and history, plays a deadly game of gin rummy. Unmarried, he spends most of his time with a coterie of very close friends: Pianist Horowitz, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, Choregrapher George Balanchine and his dancing wife Vera Zorina, Arturo Toscanini and Elsa Maxwell. He dislikes popular music and makes no bones about...