Word: efrem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Primrose's 1945 fiddle, five-eighths of an inch longer than his Amati, was built by the only U.S.-born member of the 300-year-old European Guild of Violinmakers, a stocky, shy Philadelphian named William Moennig Jr. Moennig also does all the repairing on Efrem Zimbalist's Stradivari violin, Gregor Piatigorsky's Montagnana cello.* Moennig, 40, and his 62-year-old father live and work in a colonial house on Philadelphia's once swank Locust Street, now lined with doctors' offices. The Moennigs sit at benches side by side, poking quietly into ailing...
Offenbach: Gaité Parisienne Suite (London Philharmonic, Efrem Kurtz conducting; Columbia; 4 sides). Sparkling anthology of some of Composer Offen bach's best Second Empire hits. Performance: excellent. Recording: good...
...Married. Efrem Zimbalist, 54, Russian-born violinist; and Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok, 66, widow of famed Editor Edward William Bok, daughter and heiress of the late Philadelphia Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis ; in Rockport, Me. Director since 1941 of the Curtis Institute of Music, which she established, Zimbalist was the second husband of the late Soprano Alma Gluck...
With two exceptions,* all of today's first-rank violinists are Jews. A good percentage of them are also Russians. And practically all of the Russians (Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist, etc.) are onetime pupils of crotchety, bearded, Hungarian-Jewish Leopold Auer,† who went to St. Petersburg in 1868 to teach at Czar Alexander II's Imperial Conservatory of Music...
Married. Maria Zimbalist Goelet. daughter of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist; and Henry F. Bennett Jr. of Reno; each for the second time; in Philadelphia. Her first was Manhattan Socialite Ogden Goelet...