Word: violinist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kubelik was born in 1914 near Prague. He first caught the public eye as piano accompanist for his father Jan Kubelik, the noted Czech violinist, but he comes to his present job after international success as a guest conductor and a long career as a music director of the Czech Philharmonic, the Brno Opera House, Britain's Royal Opera House at Covent Garden and, most recently, the Bavarian Radio Symphony in Munich...
...could we know that the violinist would sit in the room next door and cry, as rug, walls and violin gathered dust? How could we know that the Merit Scholar would run up and down the hallways for exercise, shouting the lyrics to "Rockabye Baby"? How could we know that the Shakespeare expert would sneak around the dorm at night stealing food from everybody's rooms? That the poet, our roommate, would never get out of bed? That the biochemist, three doors down, never slept? That the aristocrat would run away, leaving behind only her collection of bottlecans? How could...
...Gerard Menuhin, son of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, was born in Edinburgh when his parents were there for a music festival. Now Gerard, a film editor in London, must return to the U.S. by his 23rd birthday on July 23, and live in the U.S. for five years or lose his American citizenship. Ironically, his younger brother Jeremy. 19, has spent less time in the U.S. but does not face the same danger; he was born in the U.S. Says their father: "It seems illogical to divide two brothers with the same parents and the same experience in life because...
...hear the inner parts. But trios work fine. Adagio sections have to be dropped or cut because of distracting street noises. The repertory varies with the location. "The people by Doubleday's dig Beethoven more than the people in front of Macy's," says Violinist Robert Dubow. "Bach is too intellectual for the street," reports Bassoonist Greg Barber. "Besides, his line is long and threadlike. It can easily be lost when a truck roars by." Adds another street musician: "Everyone understands Mozart." Of the all-string works, Haydn's "London" trios get the biggest audiences and make...
...tennis. "It takes two to make good teaching, a teacher and a pupil, and that's why Harvard tennis is so good. All of these guys are legitimate members of the academic community: they'd be here even if they had never seen a racquet. Berner is a concert violinist," he added...