Word: violiniste
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...Literature and Materials of Music," which used the music of the past as text and was largely taught by composers. The Juilliard that Mennin inherits has a flourishing dance department that numbers in its faculty Martha Graham. Antony Tudor, Jose Limon, and a topnotch quartet-in-residence, headed by Violinist Robert Mann. Juilliard stresses contemporary music, believing that "musicians of a given epoch have the responsibility for the music of their time." It emphasizes student performances, which frequently are attended by artists' managers and talent scouts for major orchestras and opera houses. Van Cliburn, Leontyne Price and John Browning...
Daughter of a Philadelphia Orchestra violinist, Pianist Starr was pleased but not overwhelmed by her fine showing. "I didn't really want to go to Moscow," said she to the New York Times, "but the Institute of International Education raised the money for the trip. Of course, a good showing is important toward launching a career, although it's pretty unlikely that the Van Cliburn experience will ever be repeated." One annoyance of the competition, Susan found, was "learning a lot of repertory that I wouldn't otherwise have bothered with. There was a piece composed...
...When I was a student at the Imperial Conservatory in St. Petersburg,'' says Violinist Jascha Heifetz, the great Leopold Auer "pointed the finger at me and told me to teach." Heifetz was game. But thanks to his concert career and a later period of semiretirement. he took his time following Auer's advice. When he settled down to teaching this winter. Heifetz decided to enlist his Los Angeles neighbors -Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and Violist William Primrose. Result: the most gifted string faculty in the world...
Leon Kirchner has had a startling career as a professional pianist, a most prominent composer, and now Professor of Music at Harvard. He put this versatility into practice last night in performing with violinist Joseph Silverstein and cellist Samuel Mayes; yet the quality the three produced in works of Mozart and Kirchner himself was not uniform. As is so common with ensembles that feature contemporary music, the performances of modern works surpassed those of the classical ones...
...father at the Reformed cathedral of Bern. He served his ecclesiastical apprenticeship as an assistant pastor in a French-speaking parish near Geneva. Then, in 1911, he was called to the Reformed Church of Safenwil, a small mill town in northern Switzerland, where he married a sprightly young violinist named Nelly Hoffman...