Word: violiniste
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...deeply indebted to Antonio Vivaldi," said the violinist. "And I might say that Vivaldi is indebted...
Chances are excellent that Vivaldi, famed 18th century Italian master of the baroque, would be enjoying new popularity with or without Violinist Felix Ayo and fellow members of the Italian string orchestra called I Musici (The Musicians). But I Musici (pronounced "ee Moo-zee-chee") has surely contributed to the boom. And in the process it has attracted an international following that regards it as the best string orchestra in the world. This week the orchestra begins a three-month North American tour in Quebec. Day after day the musicians painstakingly rehearsed-paying the price, said a proud member...
...real estate. They are philanthropists on a noble scale: in October Josephine Paul pledged $1,000,000 to Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Their stable of race horses is first rate: one filly, Idun, won $392,490 before her retirement two years ago. Paul, a talented violinist, is a leading patron of the Philadelphia Orchestra. His wife is an art connoisseur and a collector of Meissen china...
...report was silent, however, on another development that is not rumor. Although more than 50% of the voting stock in Curtis is widely distributed, a single block of 32% is held by Mrs. Mary Zimbalist, 85, widow of the late, longtime Journal editor, Edward Bok, and now married to Violinist Efrem Zimbalist. Another block of some 17% is held by the estate of Mrs. Zimbalist's father, the late Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, the former Maine dry-goods clerk who founded the Curtis publishing empire in 1883. (Mrs. Zimbalist is one of seven trustees of the estate.) Even without...
...evening started with the President presiding over half the guests at a dinner in the State Dining Room, while Jackie was hostess to the others in the Blue Room. There were some Melachrino echoes of the past: the Air Force Strolling Strings (20 wall-to-wall violinists and a harpist) playing Victor Herbert dinner music. Then, after dinner, everyone repaired to the East Room, and the tone and tempo changed abruptly. Casals and his noted colleagues, Violinist Alexander Schneider and Pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski, had decided to forgo the dinner in favor of a short rest and a warm-up rehearsal...