Word: violinist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fringed wool ponchos and muddy boots straggle along the paths to their classes. In Commons Theater, a lone dancer in a leotard is rehearsing her interpretation of Wallace Stevens' poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. In Studio 236 of a stone mansion called Jennings Hall, a violinist tirelessly polishes the opening of a Mozart quartet. Among them all walks Gail Parker, a handsome brunette of 29, who so little expected to become Bennington's president that she laughed at the very prospect of her candidacy as "outrageous...
HOLMES HALL: Violinist Pierre d'Archambeau and Pianist Kate Froskin, tonight...
Edelman, an accomplished violinist who loves poetry "because it is beautiful and useless," was awakened by his wife Maxine after she heard the news on a radio broadcast. "It was 8 o'clock in the morning, a time when I am usually asleep and in some kind of metaphysical state," he said later in the day. "At first I was silent, then glad-delighted, in fact." Porter, who lives on a farm near Oxford, was skeptical when informed that he had won. "Reporters told me that last year and I hadn't," he explained...
...overall unity inherent in similarly-executed repetitions of the rhythmic ostinato figure. The scherzo, marked presto, was played too slowly to bring off the abundant rustic humor, while the trio, undoubtedly intended to be the lightest moment in this quartet, became a curiously contemplative "solo" for first violinist Shmuel Ashkenasi. In the final movement, Haydn employs the admittedly questionable device of recapitulating in the parallel major what had been rather serious material in G minor. The pompous ritard prior to this moment, as well as the following saccharine tempo, again made a perfectly transparent gesture seem a bit stilted...
...concert in the Harvard Summer School Series, consisted entirely of trios by Brahms--two for the standard combination (opp. 87 and 8), separated by the beautiful trio op. 114, in which the violin is replaced by a clarinet. The performances of the former works was atypical in one respect: violinist Roman Totenberg was the most prominent of the soloists. Cellist George Neikrug was, predictably, overpowered more often than not, while Leonard Shure unhappily assumed the role of piano accompanist, doing his best to stay out of the way through most of the evening...