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Word: violinist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evening started with the President presiding over half the guests at a dinner in the State Dining Room, while Jackie was hostess to the others in the Blue Room. There were some Melachrino echoes of the past: the Air Force Strolling Strings (20 wall-to-wall violinists and a harpist) playing Victor Herbert dinner music. Then, after dinner, everyone repaired to the East Room, and the tone and tempo changed abruptly. Casals and his noted colleagues, Violinist Alexander Schneider and Pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski, had decided to forgo the dinner in favor of a short rest and a warm-up rehearsal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: An Evening with Casals | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

...born. From the first, Mama knew her son would be the greatest. She took on a bewildering series of jobs so that he might be well dressed and well fed. She designed clothes, read palms, hawked jewelry, ran a tourist hotel. He would be a great violinist, a great actor, a great dancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: He Remembers Mama | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

...world, and Gary's incurably romantic mother decided that was the place for her genius son. By painful contrivance and slow stages, she got herself and her son out of Russia, across Poland and at long last to France. In succession, Romain failed her as a violinist (his teacher used to hold his hands over his ears when the boy played), as a dancer (Mama took after his homosexual instructor with her cane), and as an actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: He Remembers Mama | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

Change of Pace. Casals mesmerizing performance and an eerily effective rendition of Beethoven's Trio in D Major (the "Ghost" Trio) by Violinist Stern, Pianist Eugene Istomin and Cellist Leonard Rose were the high points of Israel's month-long festival. But there were other triumphs. Staged at seven sites from Haifa to the Revivim kibbutz, the festival drew 56,000 people to 23 concerts. In Tel Aviv, 500 music lovers who could not squeeze into the already-packed 3,000-seat Mann Auditorium were chased by police from a parapet outside the second floor. In Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Duet for Cello & Surf | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

Carnegie Hall Salutes Jack Benny (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A tribute to the eminent violinist, taped last April. With Isaac Stern, Van Cliburn, Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Benny Goodman and his sextet, and Roberta Peters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sep. 29, 1961 | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

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