Word: violiniste
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...Communist musical world to honor Hungary's late great Bela Bartok, once dismissed as a decadent "formalist," but restored to Red favor two years ago. The hit performers of last week's festival turned out to be not Communist musicians but a clutch of wandering Americans: Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and the men of the Juilliard String Quartet...
Menuhin, longtime Bartok specialist, opened the festival with the harsh and complex Sonata for Solo Violin. Menuhin let it be known that he will soon give the world premiere of a newly available early Bartok violin concerto,* which the composer dedicated to the late Hungarian-born violinist Stefi Geyer, with whom he was in love before his first marriage. Budapest audiences reserved their loudest cheers for the Juilliard group, which played Bartok's Third and Sixth quartets, plus works by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, the U.S.'s Walter Piston and Leon Kirchner. The audience yelled so loudly for encores...
...This year we hope to have a noted musician visit Dunster for a few days," Fair remarked, "perhaps a violinist...
...Continent's great orchestras, has appeared often at Milan's La Scala and in Vienna. A superb technician, Maazel invariably impresses older musicians with the vast amount of music he carries about in his head and the maturity of his musical ideas. "He is not sensational," said Violinist Isaac Stern after playing with him recently. "He is a little better than that. He is good...
...came to the U.S. with his parents before World War II 'and confounded experts by ably conducting some of the country's better orchestras when he was only nine. Later he managed to combine a college career (University of Pittsburgh) with a job as assistant conductor and violinist in the Pittsburgh Symphony. He also learned to master every other instrument in the orchestra, plus African drums (which he plays with one hand and a pencil...