Word: violining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...counter. But his parents had other ambitions for him. To the Jews of that generation any kind of musician was higher in the social scale than an actor. Paul was to be a violinist. He took his lessons dutifully but one day went to his father with his violin and told him he wanted to stay on the stage. The old man sadly took the violin, broke it across his knee. In later years the Weisenfreunds were partially recompensed by having their other two sons become musicians. Joseph is now a musical arranger at Warner Brothers' studios...
High overhead all the disturbance, the big bass bell seems to fidget uneasily. Not yet. No. No one is beating a wastebasket yet. But soon . . . Yes, there goes that tinny one now, beaten with a shoe--cynical applause. Shucks, this fellow practicing on his violin in the dark shadows of the tower room gets as much response from the boys with a pound or so of wood and gut as a wild, untuned bell gets with a ton of metal on Sunday mornings...
...their neighbors in Philadelphia it seemed as if the Gianninis made music all the time. The father, Ferruccio, was an oldtime opera singer who could boast that he had once sung with Patti. The mother, Antoinetta, played the violin. Daughters Euphemia and Dusolina sang. Son Francis had a cello when he was big enough to wield one. Son Vittorio practiced endlessly on the piano...
Tonight at 7:45 o'clock, Arthur Steinberg '38 will give a violin recital at the Music Building. He will be accompanied at the plane by Leonard Bernstein...
...players are Grosvenor W. Cooper 2G, Arnold Hartman, Jr. '38, and Leonard Bernstein '39, pianists; Raphael H. Silverman 1G, violin; A. Jan Pieters LaRue '39, clarinet; William P. Lester '38, viola; Chester W. Williams 1G, oboe; and Fred Rogosin '39, baritone...