Word: efrem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Elaine Shaffer, 47, leading lady of flutists; of cancer of the lungs; in London. Shaffer first performed with the Kansas City Philharmonic whose conductor, Efrem Kurtz, she later married. With a playing style distinguished by flawless technique and warm, full-bodied tones, she became one of the world's most widely acclaimed solo instrumentalists...
...book and taught herself to play. Upon graduation, having become a Kincaid admirer through recordings, she auditioned for him, and was promptly enrolled as his pupil at the Curtis Institute of Music. Four years later she landed her first job: second flutist with the Kansas City Philharmonic. The conductor, Efrem Kurtz, not only took her with him as first flutist in 1948 when he began the reorganization of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, but in 1955 he also married...
...when there's so much tension," says Anne Douglas. Indeed, there are still plenty of backyard pools and private tennis courts. But instead of holding a tennis tournament at the exclusive and expensive Beverly Hills Tennis Club, followed by a lavish buffet, tennis fans like Dinah Shore and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. are settling for simple at-home matches with pizza and hot dogs served up afterward...
...Post, Ladies' Home Journal and others), she spent millions to found and support the famed Curtis Institute of Music, was patron to a host of musicians and writers. Her first husband, Edward Bok, was a Pulitzer-prizewinning autobiographer and editor of the Journal; her second was Concert Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, whose son by a previous marriage, Efrem Jr., currently stars...