Word: violinist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Joe Venuti, eightyish, peerless jazz violinist whose daring experiments in swing were matched only by his outrageous practical jokes; in Seattle. Trained in the classics, Venuti played second violin in the Philadelphia Orchestra but longed to improvise. He played with Dance Band Leaders Jean Goldkette and Paul Whiteman, teamed up with Guitarist Eddie Lang to make hundreds of vintage jazz recordings and then formed his own band. An energetic performer who worked high jinks with his bow to play four strings at once, Venuti enjoyed a renaissance in the past decade and was still performing in jazz spots last...
...next to arrive are Richard and his wife, Clarisse, pulling up their Cadillac for a meal. Richard is cool, successful and wealthy, everything Red Ryder wishes he were and is not. Clarisse is a concert violinist with an $11,000 violin which Richard has bought for her, more to ensure her dependence on him than to show his love. At first, she is little more than an extension of Richard, he gets her everything he thinks she wants without listening to a word from...
...instrumentalists." He has performed as guest soloist with many major chamber groups. He has released two solo albums; the latest, The Art of Richard Stoltzman (Desmar), is a marvelous collection of 19th century French clarinet pieces. He will make his debut with the New York Philharmonic next year. Says Violinist Isaac Stern: "Rarely have I heard such a virtuoso use of the clarinet. He has searched out its possibilities, and he has the sort of solo quality about him that makes him equal to any performer...
Stoltzman now lives in Manhattan with his wife, Lucy, 26, and his year-old son, Peter John. Lucy, a violinist, occasionally supplements the family income by playing with Broadway shows. Stoltzman spends his free time transcribing music from other instruments for the clarinet to help fill out its meager repertory. One of the Mostly Mozart performances will include Mozart's Concerto in B-Flat, composed for the bassoon...
...paradoxes. Thomas Jefferson proclaimed a "self-evident" truth that all men are created equal and yet owned slaves and may have kept one as his mistress for years; he was an aristocrat and elitist who was implicated in the most democratic enterprise the world had ever attempted: a sweet violinist of the manor who could write georgic poetry about revolution and blood...