Word: grischa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grischa" Piatigorsky is currently busy writing his autobiography, which traces his remarkable career from his boyhood in the Ukraine to his arrival in the U.S. in 1929. A high point of the reminiscences comes with the time Piatigorsky was a homeless young refugee in Berlin and often had to sleep on park benches; once, seeking dry shelter for the night, he slipped into an empty concert hall and out of his rain-drenched clothes, but found himself unable to sleep and spent the time till morning playing his cello nude on the stage. He has also written a novel that...
When Gregor Piatigorsky put away his cello for a long rest 15 months ago, he was the best cellist in the U.S.* Back in Carnegie Hall last week for the first time since his sabbatical, a slightly greyer "Grischa" Piatigorsky proved that there is still no one around who can touch...
From Germany, after World War I, came some of the most memorable of all accounts of that war (The Case of Sergeant Grischa, All Quiet on the Western Front, etc.). Beyond Defeat is no Grischa or All Quiet, but it is the first of the German World War II novels to reach the U.S., and as such it is an important book...