Word: violinist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post; of a stroke; in New York City. Marcosson wrote some 30 books, including David Graham Phillips and His Times, a 1932 biography of the muckraking reporter who was shot down in 1911 while strolling in Manhattan's Gramercy Park by a crazed violinist who imagined that Phillips had defamed his sister in print. Marcosson was a friend of Phillips and the "tried and loyal friend" of Phillips' sister, who in 1932 left the author $729,286 in her will...
CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT by the Kirkland House Music Society will include fugues from The Art of the Fugue and other works by J.S. Bach. Soloists: Neal Zaslaw '61, flute; Tison Street, violinist; Joel Sachs '61, planist; and Laurence Lesser '61, cellist. Junior Common Room...
...Wait," said the visiting violinist when the British public cheered him five years ago. "Wait till you hear my boy." For the first time last week an audience outside Russia heard the "boy" play alongside his father. The family team: famed Soviet Violinist David Oistrakh, 52, and his fast-rising son Igor...
Performers still shy away from his difficult music (at least one famed violinist flatly refused to play the première of his Violin Concerto), and most audiences still listen to him with polite perplexity. But Sessions would have it no other way. "A composer," says he, "doesn't sit down at his desk and say, 'I'm going to communicate this morning...
...modern music, Bress believes, to convince bewildered audiences that "they are not being hoodwinked and that the artist is not getting away with murder." Last week's performance suggested some hazards that Bress, 29, may not have anticipated. Spectators on the left of the hall grumped that the violinist's tall silhouette concealed many of the notes. Other spectators seemed so fascinated by the sight of the music that they neglected to listen to it.* But the worst hazard of all was posed by the critics: remarking on Bress's generally dispirited performance, they scanned the huge...