Word: violine
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...Under the arching roof of Nanking's new railroad station thousands of unwashed, penniless students from Honan and Shantung are camped on the dirty cement floor, waiting for a train to resettle them somewhere below the Yangtze. One plays a forlorn tune on a two-stringed Chinese violin. Others huddle beneath filthy grey quilts, while streams of noisy, heavy-laden travelers flow around them. The pump is their lavatory. Their guardian, the Education Ministry, can feed them only one rice meal daily-usually around midnight...
...York Philharmonic-Symphony (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts Lalo's Symphonic Espagnole. Violin soloist: Isaac Stern...
Performing will be Miss Nancy Trickey, soprano; Miss Eunice Alberts, contralto; Robert Brink, violin; Eleftherios Eleftherakis, viola; William Waterhouse, violin; Miss Hannah Sherman, violoncello; and Pinkham, harpsichord...
Lehar's father, a regimental bandmaster in the old imperial Austro-Hungarian Army, wanted him to be a musician, too. So he had worked hard at the Prague Conservatory, studying the violin. When old Johannes Brahms came to Prague, young Franz had fired up his courage, submitted two of his own youthful sonatas to the great composer. After glancing through them, Brahms told him: "Hang your fiddle on the wall and become a composer...
...uncle, with whom he lived as a schoolboy, was a dealer in musical instruments. Before long, Adrian had secretly mastered the keyboard, discovered double counterpoint on his own and become the apple of the local music teacher's eye. Author Mann, who played the violin as a boy, held long conversations with his friends Igor Stravinsky and Bruno Walter as "research" for Faustus, and has packed his book with an impressive and at times annoying display of musical knowledge that will be over the heads of most readers...