Word: violiniste
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...Radcliffe Admissions officers are looking for different kinds of young women.... Radcliffe needs all kinds of people." What did the girl in the grey flannel suit imagine in high school? When you read the pamphlet, what did you see? A violinist, a Merit Scholar or two, a Shakespeare expert? A poet, a biochemist, an aristocrat? Cultured young women, taking tea with the Galbraiths? Hornrimmed girls in dirty trenchcoats dotting the steps of Widener Library? The chocolate, peach and lime the CRIMSON warned of? Or Playboy's poll: "Cliffies are Merit Scholars who are good in bed" (thank God! the best...
...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 bottlecaps? How could...
...took the Schoenberg concerto-the first of six scheduled performances by Israel-born Violinist Zvi Zeitlin-to bring the taste and tradition crisis to a head. The ticket holders had simply heard enough new music. At the end of the concert at which the walkouts occurred, the management committee decided to drop the Schoenberg. To replace it, Violinist Zeitlin chose a piece well calculated to mollify his tradition-minded audience, Mendelssohn's melodious Violin Concerto. "I approve of the decision," said Mehta on the phone from Los Angeles 10,000 miles away, "but I am not happy about...
...days of expert coaching, supervised practice and-for players so young-the rare opportunity to give three orchestral concerts at Carnegie Hall. The kids gave up their Christmas leisure to eat and sleep music. So did Sasha, along with Mischa, Felix, Contralto Maureen Forrester and Violinists Itzhak Perlman and Jaime Laredo. The result was a contrived yet carefree musical happening that bore some resemblance to a classical Woodstock. As a young second violinist put it: "The vibes were good...
Triumph of Joy. Sasha Schneider, himself the former second violinist of the Budapest Quartet and the guiding genius behind the annual Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, is a man ill equipped by talent or temperament to put up with total beginners. Each participant arrived with a full supply of credentials, plus technique-gained largely from such conservatories as Eastman, Curtis or Juilliard. But at competitive schools like these, there is often an overwhelming emphasis on individual virtuosity and solo work. Schneider's main purpose was to teach the youngsters both the difficulties and the joys of making music together...