Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Violinist Yehudi Menuhin took time out from a punishing European concert tour to climb Switzerland's 9,757-ft. Mt. Schilthorn. delighted his wife and companions after the six-hour ascent by standing on his head at the peak and running through his yoga exercises...
Died. Gaetano Merola, 72, Neapolitan-born founder-director of the San Francisco Opera Company; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. Conductor Merola went to San Francisco in 1921, survived two years in money-losing concert ventures to cajole Nob Hill society and ordinary citizens into backing their own city opera company. He launched his first season in 1923, prospered thereafter...
...Spanish Concert Guitarist Andrés Segovia, last reported in a Madrid hospital for a detached-retina operation (TIME, Aug. 3), was up and about with exciting news: "My operation was completely successful, thank God, thanks to the skill of the doctors and thanks to my 'good-natured nature...
...Madrid, Spanish Concert Guitarist Andres Segovia, 59, was rushed to the hospital for surgery after suffering a sudden detachment of the retina of his right eye. With his left eye also in danger, weeks will pass before Segovia's doctors can tell whether his eyesight will be saved. Before entering the operating room, Segovia asked for his guitar, closed his eyes, and played before a rapt audience of doctors and nurses. "Now I know I can go on playing even if I remain blind for the rest of my life," he said...
...experience and finesse, the budding LaSalles are no match for such famed international quartets as the Budapest, Griller or Paganini. But where these majestic ensembles tour the cosmopolitan concert circuits, quartets like the LaSalle are digging themselves in as hinterland institutions. The LaSalle finds that it has literally built a new audience. Moreover, by going out of its way to play for young listeners, it is building up chamber-music interest for the time when the youngsters will be buying their own concert tickets...