Word: violine
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Clark said last night he had been hiking and had "an overpowering urge" to practice his violin (which he had with him) in the middle of the frozen river. The ice gave way as soon as he set foot on it, he explained...
Music education that takes place in the dark classrooms of the movie theater begins with the lesson that love is a violin. Soon the moviegoer learns that modern jazz means trouble in the streets and that war is brass with cymbals. Worry and fear are both cellos, bravery is a trumpet call, and God is the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra. Film fans once trusted such associations implicitly, like cobras listening for their charmer's clarinet, but lately they have been startled by the sound of surprise. The new and higher esthetic of the film has made a greater range...
Close Friends. Hindemith was born in Hanau and was playing the violin in the city's dance halls and beer gardens by the time he was 13. When his compositions were banned in Germany in 1934, Hindemith turned to reorganizing the music education program of Turkey, then came to the U.S. in 1940. He was a professor of music at Yale until 1953, when he returned to Europe and settled down in Zurich. He was a short, round little man of robust health until circulatory ailments began to plague him in his declining years. Hindemith died at 68, following...
Divorced. Jascha Heifetz, 62, Russian-born violin virtuoso; by Frances Sears Heifetz, 53, his second wife, who charged he tried to lock her out of their Beverly Hills home; after 16 years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Weimar Bach found an artistic guide in the music of Vivaldi. For nine years he studiously copied Vivaldi violin concertos and arranged them for organ and clavier. He also wrote fugues based on themes by lesser Italian composers-Corelli, Legrenzi, Albinoni-and gained a fresh sense of line-the ability to say large things with an economy and clarity that his baroque predecessors had never been able to achieve...