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...makers today are also producing incredibly good instruments," she says. While most of the best players will use only an original Cremonese masterpiece, at least one world-famous violinist was impressed by a Gliga instrument. In a 1995 letter to Gliga, Yehudi Menuhin wrote, "Dear and very fine craftsman ... I shall treasure the instrument you made ..." At his headquarters in Reghin, Gliga displays the Menuhin letter with pride, convinced that the reputation of Transylvania as a center of violin-making excellence will eventually be acknowledged. And that maybe then he will be able to return to his workbench. --Reported...
...Tacony’s Historical Society are also the stewards of its Civic Association. History matters here; it’s not an entertaining diversion. The neighborhood’s 20-year vision calls for a return to the past. Tacony wants to lure back the types of craftsman and shopkeepers who once lived above the stores they operated. It plans to extirpate fast-food restaurants and interstate ramps, which have invaded the neighborhood. All along Torresdale Avenue, the main drag, this neighborhood plans to install Victorian lighting and revive Henry Disston’s ban on alcohol...
Among the posters of stylish models on the walls of Michaela Pütz's Bonn hairdressing salon hangs her Meisterbrief - the master craftsman's diploma that all German artisans must acquire before they set up their own businesses. The 40-year-old Pütz got hers 12 years ago, by attending six months of all-day classes on business management and crafts law at a cost of more than €12,000. Pütz's 21-year-old apprentice Susan, however, may not need to cram for a master's exam; the qualification, which dates back...
...honor is nothing new for a craftsman who, in 40 busy film years, has embodied the phrase "working actor." Caine has been nominated three times before as Best Actor (for Alfie, Sleuth and Educating Rita), without a victory, and won twice as Sup-porting Actor (Hannah and Her Sisters, The Cider House Rules). But the Quiet American citation is richly earned. Even Caine might think he deserves, if not an Oscar, a medal of honor for doing justice to Graham Greene's 1955 novel and tunneling into the murky life of its protagonist, the Englishman Thomas Fowler. "The role...
...sibling was also named Al (Alexander - their parents had a sense of humor too), the other Milton (he died in the influenza epidemic of 1919). Mom worked, Dad stayed home and minded the kids. In 1915, the family moved to New York City, perhaps to get the budding draftsman-craftsman Al(bert) into an artistic milieu. He went to a few art schools and found remuneration in advertising departments of local movie companies. He worked for Samuel Goldwyn and Lewis Selznick (David O.'s father), becoming art director of Selznick...