Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seymour Morris is "a beginner that's working very hard." Vic Pire at 137 should wrestle 130, but there is no one else at 137. At 147 Dave Stern is "inexperienced but willing...
...where, next to having a college professor in the family, the proudest parents are those who can boast about "my son the violin player." Indeed, the front rank of the world's best violinists is predominantly Jewish-David Oistrakh, Nathan Milstein, Leonid Kogan, Yehudi Menuhin, Jascha Heifetz, Isaac Stern...
...adopted the instrument from the gypsies. "The violin was inexpensive," says Boehm, "easy to carry, and it could cry and sing like the human voice. So it best expressed the bittersweet emotions of the Jew in his homelessness." "The violin was the ticket out of the ghetto," explains Isaac Stern. "Pianos were scarce; woodwinds didn't mean anything." As a result, Israel teems with violinists. The tiny nation's 32 music schools are brimming over with aspiring young fiddlers, and hundreds more study privately...
PROKOFIEV: VIOLIN CONCERTOS (Columbia). Isaac Stern is at ease in both concertos, one written just before and the other 18 years after the revolution. Prokofiev is more playful and shocking in the first, simpler and more romantic in the second. The orchestra is the Philadelphia, conducted by Eugene Ormandy...
...enough, but every generation has shaped its own unique understanding of the Saviour. To the first Jewish Christians of Jerusalem, he was primarily the Messiah spoken of by Isaiah and the prophets. The Christos Pantocrator of Orthodoxy was as royal a governor as any Byzantine emperor. Calvinism emphasized the stern lord of the Last Judgment, a magistrate who could govern the theocracy that was Geneva. The most painted figure in the history of art, Jesus has been portrayed in countless forms, from the fat-legged infant in the laps of serene