Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stern, Francescatti & Co. have their marked individual differences, but their music reflects what Francescatti calls "the international style''-a welding of the romantic Russian school with the intellectual German and the elegant French. Stern prefers to call this melting-pot style American rather than "international." and he himself is a prime example. Born in Kreminiecz, Russia, but taken to San Francisco by his parents before he was a year old, he studied with the San Francisco Symphony's Russian-born and trained Naum Blinder, later listened to recordings of the Austrian Fritz Kreisler and the Belgian...
...Isaac Stern belongs to a breed of violin virtuosos who blend the elegant techniques of past masters with a warm understanding that elevates virtuosity into art. But Stern's violin (a Guarnerius) still belongs to the breed that Paganini played-and remains a remarkably recalcitrant instrument.* Musicians avoid it so studiously that even major orchestras find it difficult to hire string-section replacements. But Stern and four other greatly gifted players have lifted the solo violin to an eminence any age could envy. Standing with Stern as the world's finest: Zino Francescatti, David Oistrakh, Nathan Milstein, Jascha...
Violinist Stern soon developed a scholar's yen for analyzing music and a distaste for studying technique (although an interest in the problems of bowing once led him to study the anatomy of hand and arm and their motor controls). The son of a house painter, Stern made his Manhattan debut at 17 ("I wasn't the greatest thing since Mozart"), but had to wait seven more years before he was able to start a successful concert career. Now an almost compulsive concertizer, he is rarely in his Manhattan duplex, averages a brain-fogging 125 concerts and recitals...
...stern-faced Cromwell admonished the young painter Peter Lely to "use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it." For the result...
...elected Speaker on his first day in the House. That year, 70 of the House's 116 members were new, and Clay appealed to the rookies' thirst for new-blood leadership. Before Clay, the Speaker generally acted as a feeble referee over an undisciplined House mob. A stern taskmaster, Clay brought order and respectability to the House. Members were forbidden to put their feet on their desks, and the hound dog of Virginia's eccentric John Randolph was banished from the chamber on orders of the Speaker. Clay refused to be a mere presiding officer, asserted...