Word: violiniste
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...countries (including five Americans) bowing away at each other. On hand were 17 judges, eleven from Iron Curtain countries. In a rigorous round (unaccompanied Bach sonatas and Wieniawski caprices), almost half the contestants were eliminated. Two stood out; it would be a contest between a U.S. and a Russian violinist...
...American, and the crowd's favorite from the beginning, was Cleveland-born Sidney Harth, 32, concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Louisville Orchestra. His Soviet competitor was a talented Russian girl, Rosa Fain, 28, pupil of Russian Violinist David Oistrakh, one of the judges. Only 13 violinists lasted to the finals. The required work: a Polish violin concerto. Both Violinists Harth and Fain selected Wieniawski's Second Concerto...
...fashion. Contestant Fain showed brilliant technique, warmth and sincerity, though there seemed to be something constrained about her playing. Harth, on the other hand, got himself into trouble with some of the judges by playing too freely. When the vote was counted (Oistrakh giving both contestants identical, maximum scores), Violinist Fain nosed out Violinist Harth by 409 to 406 points. Some of the Western judges were wroth, argued that Louisville's Harth would have won but for open political partiality. At week's end the six top contestants played a joint concert in Warsaw, and the crowd...
Twice after playing with the New York Philharmonic, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin mortified the Philharmonic management by responding to applause with Bach encores, a rash defiance of the Philharmonic's staid traditions. After a third concert for another full house at Carnegie Hall last week, both audience and some orchestra players mischievously sought to applaud Menuhin into another encore. Duly warned to stick rigidly to the program, Menuhin smiled and announced: "I am not allowed . . ." Applause broke out again. Finally, Violinist Menuhin made a little speech: "I am not at all sure you are allowed to applaud either! [Snickers from...
...class with Toscanini, Bruno Walter and Furtwangler, but his illness had left him eccentric. The first time he conducted at the opera house he wore high leather boots, took them off in the middle of the performance. During rehearsal, he became so enraged at a violinist that he grabbed the man's violin and smashed it over his head. Nightly, at the city's cafes, he scolded waiters, flirted with local beauties and pounded out jazz on the cafe piano...