Word: violining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facts of Sergei Alexandrovich Koussevitzky's life belie his haughty mien but not his profession. He was born in 1874 in the tiny bedraggled central Russian village of Vyshny Volochek. His mother, who died shortly after he was born, was a pianist; his father gave lessons on the violin. A poor boy, destined by a traditionally musical family for a musical career, he was soon on his way to Moscow in search of a scholarship at Moscow's Philharmonic Conservatory. Because he was late in applying, and because there were only a few places left in the conservatory...
...captains, so some symphonies have co-conductors. Back to work from his summer home in Sanbornville, N.H. last week went one of the Philadelphia orchestra's co-conductors, blond-haired, Budapest-born Eugene Ormandy. Mr. Ormandy had spent a diligent summer, working over programs, boning up on the violin, his first love, with Virtuoso Jascha Heifetz...
...White House party at which Tommy the Cork, playing his accordion and singing his ballads, charmed the Great Charmer. His tenor voice is honey smooth. His quick mind and tongue have a tenoctave range, from airiest wit to profoundest judicial deliberation. He handles people as a virtuoso plays a violin. Beneath his silkiness lies a mental toughness, a counterpart of the muscular toughness that enabled him to build a cabin on Mt. Washington with his two hands, makes him a tireless mountain skier and climber, lets him work 20 hours a day for weeks at a stretch. His shock...
Pepper Martin's Mudcats (Mon. 11:30 p. m., MBS). St. Louis Cardinals' swing band led by Outfielder Martin (guitar and mouth harp). Other members: Pitchers Lon Warneke (guitar), Bill McGee (violin), Lefty Weiland (jug), Outfielder Frenchy Bordagaray (washboard, auto horns...
...Krakauer Bros. The Wurlitzer, which will sell for less than $1,000, has two keyboards, one for piano strings, the other for any one of twelve electrically produced tones-tuba, cello, violin, flute...