Word: violin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOHN HANDY ALBUM (Columbia). The hit of last summer's jazz festival at Monterey, Handy's quintet consists of his own sax, a violin, a guitar, bass and drums-all of which contribute to a complex, light-textured cacophony that is very close to contemporary classical chamber music, especially in long pieces like his Scheme #1. Handy can also produce tongue-in-cheek rock 'n' roll like Blues for a Highstrung Guitar with both wit and warmth...
...Prima Donna on first violin...
...flying from Turin to Paris, Lord Harewood noticed a pretty girl with a violin on her lap. She was Australian-born Patricia Tuckwell, a onetime model, divorcee, and a violinist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. They began to see each other, were in turn seen together (often at concerts). In 1964 she bore...
Horsehair & Sheep Guts. All of which explains why violinists mother their instruments like newborn babies. "It's something very personal," says Isaac Stern, "because it is an extension of your musical soul. Treat your violin with love and it will love you back...
...doesn't, touring virtuosos take comfort in the fact that there is a "violin doctor" in many major cities on the concert circuit ready to make repairs. Sometimes though, it is the violinists who need help. "They're all the same," sighs Max Moller, the resident string doctor in Amsterdam, who is forever dashing off to the concert hall on emergency calls. "I usually discover there is nothing wrong," he says, "except with the artists' nerves. I tell them that their violin is fine and then they are happy." So, ultimately, are the audiences, for as Violinist...