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Such unearthly skill called for extraordinary compositions to serve as display pieces. Who better to write them than Paganini himself? He turned out a famous Witches' Dance, a series of caprices, sonatas, quartets, variations and five full-scale violin concertos. The pieces hardly challenged Beethoven's, but they were competently constructed crowd pleasers that bristled with the kind of technical bravura in which Paganini gloried-vertiginous runs and arpeggios, contrapuntal double and even triple stops, a fuller range than any violinist had ever attempted of harmonic overtones (the higher-pitched vibrations of given notes, produced by depressing...
Jetting to Hell. When Paganini died in 1840, many of these compositions -including the third violin concerto -were tucked away in a bank vault in Milan under the care of the violinist's heirs. Other violinists have been trying to get at them ever since. By last year, all the concertos except the third had been released. It was still held by the Paganini family. Last Christmas, Philips Records, aided by Violinist Henryk Szeryng, finally obtained it after ten years of delicate negotiations...
...game comes in a box shaped like a small violin case. On the playing board, the island of Manhattan is divided into neighborhoods-Harlem, Little Italy, the Lower East Side. "The object of the game," the instructions explain, "is to take control of a racket-bookmaking, extortion, loan sharking or hijacking-in as many of the neighborhoods on the board as possible." Players draw bad-break cards ("St. Valentine's Day card addressed to you, lose one strongarm and $250") or good-break cards, such as "Friendly persuasion. You get two strongarms and $150." The player with the highest...
...January. As if that were not enough litigation, the retrial of Alioto's $12.5 million libel suit against Look magazine-which accused him of having business associations with mobsters -comes up in December. If the court action hurts his present career, he can always turn to the violin, which he plays with distinction...
...worth preserving for domestic use because it is too wild, stupid and inbred (according to some ranchers), the mustang has long been rounded up and "rendered"-a euphemism for slaughtered-by various entrepreneurs. At first the horse carcasses were valued only as a source of glue, clothing and violin bowstrings. But by 1945, industry recognized that wild horses were a cheap source of pet food. That was the signal for the beginning of the great hunt...