Word: violin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make mistakes in roommate combinations, because it is difficult to tell from paper forms what a boy will really be like when he arrives in September. The number of actual roommate break-ups is about eight or ten a year. "Generally, these splits occur because one roommate plays his violin at all hours of the night, or for some other reason connected with personal habits," Jewett continued. "Roommates almost never break up over large questions of educational or cultural values...
According to the West German Music Council, the number of music students who chose the violin as their principal subject decreased by 30% between 1953 and 1960. There is a general shortage of instruments, teachers, and practice rooms. The basic reason for all this, say some German musicians, is that their country concentrated so intensely on physical reconstruction after the war that there was little time or inclination for cultural activities. Anxious to correct the situation, the Music Council has organized a new foundation for musical affairs. By providing scholarships and better facilities for young talent, the foundation hopes...
...Black Magic. Since he was made principal conductor of the Philharmonia for life in 1959, Klemperer has mellowed considerably, rarely giving in to the manic moods and deep depressions of his earlier career (he had been known to grab a violin from a player's hand and smash it over the fiddler's head). When not conducting, he lives in a Zurich apartment, attended by his daughter Lotte, never grants interviews and goes out only for occasional walks. His recent recordings have been so good that they have furnished him with what amounts to a new career. Although...
...Music. Bagrit himself attributes much of Elliott's rapid rise to the autonomy he grants his division heads-a habit that has stimulated prideful competition among them. This system has the added advantage of assuring Bagrit, who as a young man picked up spare cash by playing violin in the Royal Philharmonic, ample time to indulge his taste for music, art and philosophy...
...took all the repeats. Unfortunately, by repeating Haydn's musical joke in the last movement four times, he killed it rather dead. But the rest of the symphony lived. The second movement, taken at a good deliberate tempo, enjoyed the outstanding solo performance of Tison Street, concertmaster, as violin concertanto. Here, and in the fourth movement, Street gave truly professional performances: accurate, sure, and evocative of all the subtleties in the music. Marshall Brown, first cellist of the orchestra, played the violoncello concertanto. As they had all evening, the strings-notorious nomads in the wastelands of intonation-stayed right...