Word: violiniste
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...Florentine Composer Luigi Cherubini's birth with the first modern performance of his long-forgotten Elisa. The Maggio Musicale will also offer a handful of 20th century works, including Janacek's Jenufa, will feature concerts by Milan's Nuovo Quartette, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Warsaw, Violinist Isaac Stern...
...Montreux (Aug. 31-Sept. 25). Hampered by the lack of a first-class concert hall (a visiting violinist once bitterly referred to the "grotto acoustics" of the lakeside pavilion), the festival directors nevertheless present excellent large-scale concerts by the Orchestre National de Paris and the Symphony of the Nordwestdeutsche Rundfunk. Among the participants: Conductors Eugen Jochum, Ernest Ansermet and Andre Cluytens, Virtuosos Nathan Milstein, Artur Rubinstein, Pierre Fournier, Zino Francescatti...
Hedy Lamarr, Crowther claims, earned her chance in Hollywood by sailing from London to New York on the same ship with Mayer, "ostensibly traveling as a sort of governess for a boy violinist." Around the studios, says Crowther, "it was long suspected that Mayer was after Jeanette MacDonald and Myrna Loy, both of whom had the experience of being indulged and then disfavored by him." And to Luise Rainer, Mayer complained: "Why don't you sit on my lap when we're discussing your contract, the way the other girls...
...York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts (CBS, 1-2 p.m.). For the second program of the series, Leonard Bernstein has invited a 14-year-old violinist, a 15-year-old cellist, and a nine-year-old narrator, who will accompany the orchestra in Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf...
...pondering, explained Klee, was the rhythmic relationship between the music and the slabs of concrete passing beneath his feet. To illustrate, he drew a sketch: a stream of smoothly flowing lines set off against a series of thrusting rectangles. Klee, son of a musicologist and himself an accomplished violinist, long wavered between music and painting; throughout his life (he died in 1940) he kept seeing rhythmic parallels between the two arts. "And so I gently slide into the world of tonality," said he at 24, when he began to turn from etching to painting...