Word: violinist
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What makes it more impressive is that Schuller was a high school dropout, and is a completely self-taught composer ("I learned from the best teachers, the scores themselves"). The son of a New York Philharmonic violinist, he became a professional French horn player at 16, at 19 started a 14-year stint with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. All the while, he composed prolifically. even scribbling notes during rests at performances...
KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Jack Benny stops in to host "Fiddler on the Loose" with such guests as Concert Violinist Michael Rabin, Brazilian Singer Astrud Gilberto, Pianist Liberace and "The Waukegan String Quartet," which includes violins bowed by Rabin, Benny and Comedian Henny Youngman and cello by Morey Amsterdam...
...string ichigenkin. Now all that has changed. In the past few years, American and European concert halls have experienced something close to a full-scale invasion by talented Korean and Japanese musicians. Last week, Japan's Seiji Ozawa, 32, conducted programs of Rossini and Hindemith in Canada; Korean Violinist Young Uck Kim, 20, performed Saint-Saëns' Concerto No. 3 in Corpus Christi, Texas; and an eight-year-old Japanese cherub named Hitomi Kasuya played part of a Mozart violin concerto in Albuquerque and in South Euclid, Ohio...
Most of the migrant Orientals are string players, and many are filling chairs in the world's great orchestras. Amsterdam's Concertgebouw numbers five Japanese violinists among its ranks. West Berlin's Radio Orchestra has a Japanese concertmaster, as do both the Oklahoma City Symphony and the Quebec Symphony. The Boston Symphony and the Japan Philharmonic are in the second year of an exchange agreement whereby two string players from each orchestra swap places for a season. And the promising youngsters keep coming: co-winner of this year's prestigious Leventritt Award was Korean Violinist Kyung...
Perhaps the Suzuki method will in time overcome the U.S. shortage. Until it does, chances are that more and more orchestras will look to the Far East. The Orientals are not only more available but competent and eager as well. As Isaac Stern explains: "A top-class Tokyo violinist starts at less than $100 a month, while in America today an orchestral musician is a member of an elite, well-paid profession." Adds Master Teacher Galamian, only partly in jest: "There was a time when all the finest violinists were Jewish and came from Odessa. Maybe now they will...