Word: sasha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...avoid the marriage-like pitfalls of quartet life, the players follow many of Sasha Schneider's helpful guidelines. They rarely socialize together during off hours; on tour, they try to avoid the same train or plane, and often stay in different hotels. They also divvy up business responsibilities: Steinhardt handles travel, Dalley is in charge of money, Soyer manages overseas tours, and Tree is the program chairman. "We're just like a corporation," says Steinhardt. "We work together, but must we play together?" When they try, it can cause trouble. Last year Steinhardt broke his own self-imposed...
...first is a monologue in which a funky voiced blonde bitch called Gloria (Sasha von Scherler), tells about the delicious party she just gave-serving up her guests in bite-sized morsels. People exist for Gloria to hold up and put down, and she delightedly pounces on a waifish little girl somebody brought, with so much hair, she explains, "it was impossible to see its face without trespassing." The fact that the waif died of drug withdrawal the next day is merely the perfect capper for Gloria's account of the evening...
...ebullient, frizzy-haired "Sasha" Schneider is, at 59, a second fiddler the likes of which chamber music has rarely seen. Whirling like a dervish around the fringes of the limelight, he is not only a tireless performer but also an enormously influential catalyst and organizer, teacher and tastemaker. Wherever he goes, music seems to happen around him through a sort of spontaneous combustion...
...Budapest Quartet by inserting pictures of nude women between the pages of their scores. He is also an accomplished chef. One source of friction in his brief marriage to Actress Geraldine Page (1954-57) seems to have been her insistence on eating peanut-butter sandwiches; few would fault Sasha there...
...SASHA VONSCHERLER MAYER Manhattan...