Word: violiniste
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Zuckerman, a friendly, flop-haired bear of a boy ("Everybody calls me Pinky"), started studying at seven with his violinist father. In 1961, Isaac Stern and Pablo Casals heard him play at the Tel Aviv Conservatory and immediately cleared the way for him to go to New York. In the finals, he says, "I lost my cool. My fingers got all tangled up. It taught me how much I could produce under tension, but I sure hope it never happens again." At a victory celebration, he broke down and cried...
Amsterdam's renowned, 78-year-old Concertgebouw Orchestra, on the eve of a 1956 performance of the Cherubini Requiem in C Minor, desperately needed a substitute for ailing Conductor Carlo Maria Giulini; it turned to 27year-old Bernard Haitink, an assistant conductor and former second violinist of the Dutch Radio Orchestra, who had led the work not long before. "No," replied Haitink. "I'm not ready, and anyway, I'd like to stay alive." Hotter heads prevailed. Haitink conducted, and the familiar scenario spun to its happy conclusion: he was invited back by the Concertgebouw, soon began...
Author Norman Mailer and violinist James Oliver Buswell IV '69, will be the guests of the Tenth Annual Leverett House Festival of the Arts this week...
...Hong Kong, where he sought asylum in the U.S. Exactly how Ma rejoined his family and managed to escape remains untold, but he is reported to have reached Hong Kong with other escapees in a small boat. At any rate, ensconced at the Manhattan home of his brother, a violinist who left China before the Communists took over, he allowed that he was "very fortunate. Many prominent writers who could not get away have committed suicide...
Died. Mischa Elman, 76, violinist, who rose from a Ukrainian ghetto to play before the Czar by the time he was 17 years old, immigrated to the U.S. in 1908, where his sensuous, pulsating "Elman tone," far richer than the restrained vibrato and small tone then in vogue, took the music world by storm (to a fan who once gushed that he played like a god, Elman replied, "A god doesn't improve; I do") and launched a marathon, 5,014-concert career that continued until his death; of a heart attack; in New York...