Word: violiniste
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...born. From the first, Mama knew her son would be the greatest. She took on a bewildering series of jobs so that he might be well dressed and well fed. She designed clothes, read palms, hawked jewelry, ran a tourist hotel. He would be a great violinist, a great actor, a great dancer...
...world, and Gary's incurably romantic mother decided that was the place for her genius son. By painful contrivance and slow stages, she got herself and her son out of Russia, across Poland and at long last to France. In succession, Romain failed her as a violinist (his teacher used to hold his hands over his ears when the boy played), as a dancer (Mama took after his homosexual instructor with her cane), and as an actor...
Behind him, the surf broke with the flawless rhythm of a metronome, a whispering complement to the cellist's own compelling beat. "Now we are hearing two eternal sounds." marveled Violinist Isaac Stern, "the ocean surf and great music." A rapt audience enthusiastically agreed. Caesarea's centuries-old silence had been broken by beauty...
Change of Pace. Casals mesmerizing performance and an eerily effective rendition of Beethoven's Trio in D Major (the "Ghost" Trio) by Violinist Stern, Pianist Eugene Istomin and Cellist Leonard Rose were the high points of Israel's month-long festival. But there were other triumphs. Staged at seven sites from Haifa to the Revivim kibbutz, the festival drew 56,000 people to 23 concerts. In Tel Aviv, 500 music lovers who could not squeeze into the already-packed 3,000-seat Mann Auditorium were chased by police from a parapet outside the second floor. In Jerusalem...
Carnegie Hall Salutes Jack Benny (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A tribute to the eminent violinist, taped last April. With Isaac Stern, Van Cliburn, Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Benny Goodman and his sextet, and Roberta Peters...