Word: violiniste
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...with a novelty-packed program: the Beethoven Fifth (which New York had heard only once before), arias from Weber and Rossini operas, and assorted works by composers who ranked among the innovators of the time, including Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Johann Wenzeslaus Kalliwoda. Founded by the eccentric but talented violinist-conductor Ureli Corelli Hill, the orchestra gave only three concerts its first year. It charged the astronomical price of $1.11 a ticket (the going price for 20 Ibs. of beef). Unlike the Vienna Philharmonic, though, which was founded the same year and forced to suspend operations several times...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Virtuoso Teacher" shows both aspects of Concert Violinist Joseph Fuchs's professional life: at work readying two of his Juilliard students for a music competition, and in concert with Yehudi Menuhin last summer at the Bath Festival...
...luggage too big to fit beneath seats (which generally accommodate packages 9 in. high, 13 in. wide, 23 in. long). As one result, American Airlines has stocked O'Hare Airport in Chicago with hundreds of cardboard containers for items plucked from their customers' arms. As another result, Violinist Emery Deutsch was recently forced to pay an extra half fare for a seat to carry his $40,000 Guarnerius from New York to Chicago. One airline went so far as to refuse to let a woman passenger keep her crutches at her seat, insisting that they must be stowed...
...conductor, of course, is only as good as the members of his-orchestra, and to give complete credit one would have to name nearly every individual performer. It was an evening of soloists, especially in the much reduced ensembles of the Stravinsky and Milhaud. Violinist Tison Street and flutist Geoffrey Greenfield were outstanding in the Stranvinsky. The jazz-like Creation featured sensitive solos from 'cellist Philip Moss and saxophonist Hardin Matthews, as well as some sultry low-register flutter-tonguing by the two flutists. Oboists George Donner's Gershwin-like plaints creation actually predates Rhapsody in Blue and American...
What makes it more impressive is that Schuller was a high school dropout, and is a completely self-taught composer ("I learned from the best teachers, the scores themselves"). The son of a New York Philharmonic violinist, he became a professional French horn player at 16, at 19 started a 14-year stint with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. All the while, he composed prolifically. even scribbling notes during rests at performances...