Word: paganini
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Overtime. In St. Louis, Louis Druzinsky, St. Louis Symphony violinist, donned old clothes and dark glasses, fiddled Paganini and Tchaikovsky at a street corner, collected $5.98 in his tin cup in 25 minutes, philosophized: "I ought to quit the Symphony. I can make more money this...
Next to the late great Nicolò Paganini, the most famous violinist of the 19th Century was a fantastic Norwegian named Ole Bull. Ole (rhymes with Café au lait) took scarcely a violin lesson in his life. His brilliant playing was always eccentric in technique and in emotion it was usually the most sumptuous ham. But big, courtly, iron-muscled Ole was the most assertive personality in Norway and one of the most assertive personalities outside it. Last fortnight the first full-length biography of Ole Bull was published by his granddaughter's husband, Mortimer Smith of Sandy...
...Francis, whose music by Paul Hindemith is among the best in the modern theatre, has slipped from the repertory; Sol Hurok does not like it. Among the new ballets now presented by the two companies, the best has to do with a man who died a century ago, Fiddler Paganini...
...Paganini: Caprices Nos. 1-12 (Ossy Renardy, violinist, Walter Roberts, pianist; Victor: six sides). Acrobatics recalling the composer-fiddler's centenary (TIME, June 10 ). A maybe for fiddle fans, a might-could for others...
Alternately greedy and generous, Paganini made and spent a deal of money, slept in many an illicit bed, achieved the patronage of Napoleon's sister Elisa (Princess of Lucca and Piombo). Burned out in his early 50s, Paganini died in Nice at 58, a century ago last week. Few men have been so widely buried. For his sins, the Catholic Church declined to give him holy ground. Nice, Cannes, Antibes, St. Raphael refused him space. Three years later, when the Church changed its mind, Paganini was dug up from the wastes next to an olive oil factory, moved...