Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Urged by his parents to learn to play an instrument, Tsang began playing the piano when he was six. He added the cello at age seven, inspired by a concert which his schoolteacher's son gave. "I fell in love with the tone of the cello," he says, adding, "Besides that, everyone was playing the violin...
...violin, much to the relief of her mother and siblings, who believe, as Rose, the narrator, says, that "to play an instrument badly was as shameful as any crime short of murder." Rose and her twin sister Mary practice the piano daily and dream of their futures on concert stages across Europe. The precocious little brother, Richard Quin, grows more charming, while Cousin Rosamund, withdrawn and beautiful, becomes effectively a member of this fatherless family...
Pasternak, who died in 1982 at the age of 88, views prerevolutionary Moscow from a lofty perspective. His mother Rosa Koffmann was a celebrated concert pianist. His father Leonid, an impressionist painter and graphic artist, became a dominant figure in 20th century Russian art. Brother Boris started out as a promising composer and became one of Russia's greatest poets and, in 1958, a Nobel laureate...
Music dominated this household of creative artists. The Pasternaks haunted the city's concerts, which were more like family gatherings than formal affairs. At the beginning of the concerts the chairs were arranged in the usual rows. "But since the same people attended nearly every concert . . . and knew each other well by sight, the arrangement was regularly disturbed by the audience's imperative need to share its pleasures," Pasternak recalls. The listeners "shifted, straggled, and clustered," taking their chairs with them. "By the end of the evening the seating had turned into a map charting the music's magnetic field...
...unlikely candidate for a daunting task. His father, a Budapest dentist and an amateur violinist, put a fiddle in his son's hands when the child was four, and for a time Ormandy seemed destined for the life of a touring virtuoso. Stranded in America after a promised concert tour failed to materialize, he was nearly penniless when he drifted into New York City's Capitol Theater and landed a job in the pit orchestra in 1921. Within a week he was named concertmaster; three years later he made his conducting debut leading a shortened version of Tchaikovsky's Fourth...