Word: violiniste
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...says. For years, she was repeatedly cast in German films more or less as Shirley Tempelhof, the cardboard princess. Determinedly, she has changed all that. Last week in London, dressed in tights and high black stockings, she began work in Carl Foreman's The Victors as a cabaret violinist turned whore, playfully kicking up her heels and pulling her tights smooth over her alert backside. Spurred by competition, she may create the greatest whore since the fall of the Ptolomies. Mercouri and Moreau are in The Victors as well...
...where many a young hopeful gets lost among the wind instruments of his high school band, orchestras have been hampered by a violinist shortage for several decades. But the shortage is not nearly so severe as it has become in Germany. There, nearly half the vacant orchestra seats belong to violinists. The majority of present orchestra violinists are between 45 and 65 years old, and there is little replacement potential in the younger generation...
...Beta Kappa key, a Harvard doctorate and a quick mind of the math-and-music kind. His math won him honors at U.C.L.A. ('40), got him a teaching job at Oregon State College before he became a wartime Army captain. His music made him an accomplished violinist, and for years a member of symphony orchestras in Southern California. He was an upstate New York school superintendent when Pittsburgh found...
Persuasive Speech. The festival was organized as a salute to Soviet music in general: along with Shostakovich came Conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Violinist David Oistrakh, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife, Singer Galina Vishnevskaya. (After Pianist Sviatoslav Richter failed to show up, forcing the refund of $11,200 worth of tickets, the Russians tersely announced that their great virtuoso was resting at home with a mild stroke.) But for all the heavy concentration of glamorous box office names, the center of attention remained Shostakovich, who often could be seen sprinting from one concert hall to another to keep up with...
...ENGLAND CONSERVATORY Isaac Stern, violinist Mus.D...