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...referred to Defendants Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson as "cymbals" in the ensemble, Mardian's attorney, Thomas Green, insisted that his client "never sat in the orchestra-he sat down in the seats ... finally got up and walked out." H.R. Haldeman, who might have been described as first violin, was not assigned a rhetorical instrument...
That career was a capsule history of show business. Benny Kubelsky, a poor Jewish kid from Waukegan, III., was something of a prodigy on the violin; his father, a small-time haberdasher, entertained hopes of a concert career. But by 1912 the brash kid had practical-joked his way out of school and onto the vaudeville stage. His solo act, A Few Minutes with Jack Benny, swiftly became the country's most civilized performance. When Jack tried a Broadway revue, Robert Benchley marveled at his savoir-faire. Yet somehow Benny always seemed a cut below headliner status...
THERE IS NO better occasion than a birthday to pay homage to a great composer, and in honor of Beethoven's 204th, the Bach Society Orchestra played an all-Beethoven concert last Saturday evening. Chosen from Beethoven's seven concertos and nine symphonies, the Violin Concerto in D. Opus 61 (1806), offered a change of solo instrument after performances of piano concertos in the past two concerts, and the Symphony Number Eight in F, Opus 93 (1812), was simply the only one that could be managed by the small 43-man orchestra...
...only learned of the secret marriage with an hour to spare, provided boutonnieres niched from a hotel flowerpot. ∎ Died. Cornelius Ryan, 54, bestselling chronicler of World War II (The Longest Day, The Last Battle, A Bridge Too Far); of cancer; in Manhattan. Born in Dublin, Ryan studied the violin at the Irish Academy of Music before becoming a war correspondent in 1941. He covered the D-day invasion for the London Daily Telegraph; he reported postwar atomic tests in the Pacific and the Israeli 1948 war for TIME. A return to Normandy in 1949 rekindled his fascination with Operation...
Lynn Chang, violin, and Richard Kogan, piano, will play Bach and Brahms sonatas and fantasies of Schubert and Paganini...