Word: dianas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Violinist Diana Halprin last week got a break a lot of musicians wait a lifetime for -and it came at age six. She was engaged to play as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Picked from a field of 17 aspiring moppets, aged six to twelve, Diana will perform at a concert for children next season-the youngest violinist ever to play with the orchestra...
...idea his daughter might be a prodigy when he heard her picking out radio tunes on a toy piano at the age of two. He tested her further, discovered she had absolute pitch.* Also, "she was really born with a fiddle hand," broad and dexterous. At three, Diana got her first violin, a four-ounce affair, one-eighth adult size, and began taking lessons from her father...
When the Halprins moved to Philadelphia last year, Diana enrolled in the Curtis Institute, traded her violin for a quarter-sized one. Her practice sessions are frequent but seldom last more than 20 minutes. Games are invented to keep her interest, e.g., Diana shows her dolls the correct way to play, then plays for them herself. For next season's concert, Diana hopes to be able to handle a half-size violin, perform a movement from a Mozart or Mendelssohn concerto...
Also elected were: Ulrich E. Kruse 1G, Physics; Basil Mott, Public Administration; Richard N. Schwab 2G, History; Richard C. Sterne 2G, English; Norman L. Thoburn 1G, Education; Joseph L. Tryon 2G, Economics; and Robert P. Wheatley 3Dv., Divinity. Diana Burn, Chemistry, was elected N.S.A. representative...
...Radcliffe News has elected Mary Kahle '53, of Cincinnati and Moors Hall and Diana Crane '53 of Toronto and Whitman Hall to the posts of editor-in-chief and managing editor, present editor-in-chief Ann Roberts '51 announced last night...