Word: violinist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Through all this, the pace never varies. We are treated to cliche camera work (fading back and forth between blurred background and foreground figures, over the shoulder shots into mirrors) and cliche background music (B.B. King singing "The Thrill Is Gone" as the violinist lies bored during her husband's lovemaking). Lee Grant, as the violinist, wears clothes out of the seventies...
...passe that they talked and jeered throughout. Robert Mann retaliated by playing with his back to the crowd. When the Concord was playing at Vassar in 1972, the group had to stop twice in a lengthy George Rochberg quartet to replace broken strings. As he turned the last page, Violinist Sokol breathed a sigh of relief?and his music fluttered to the floor. When Cellist Norman Fischer bent down to retrieve it, he knocked over Second Violinist Andrew Jennings' stand. Then Fischer's own crashed over. It was a case of concerted collapse...
...rehearse at his Paris town house. After a leisurely lunch, the four went to work in the living room, with the old man listening. They had played only a few bars of Mozart when tears began to stream down Rubinstein's face. "I began to cry too," says Violinist Mann. "We all began to cry. It may not have been the best performance we ever gave, but it was certainly the most emotional." Said Rubinstein, now too blind to play the piano: "As I sat here with you, you made me realize what I am missing...
...Graduate Touring Program and Nightmusic Series offer an alternative of sorts for concertgoers. This fall, the Touring Program features eight concerts by vocalists, chamber players, brass quintet and a violinist. The concerts take place at such locations as the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Walpole State Prison and the Goethe Institute of Boston. Today at noon, soprano Sheila Gayle sings music of Handel and Debussy at the Federal Reserve, 600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, and the Romanul Chamber Players perform at the Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway, Boston, at 4 p.m. All of the concerts...
...beginning of a very exciting and productive period." Others feel that Mehta is an antidote to Boulez's astringency, and that he will bring back some of the fire of the Bernstein days. "Boulez was not trying to reach the audience with spontaneous feeling, or luscious phrasing," says Violinist Oscar Ravina. "We'll be coming closer to that kind of thing with Mehta...