Word: violiniste
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Ruth's father was a frustrated violinist (reduced to giving lessons), but when she rebelled against this instrument at the age of three, pleading for the piano, he gave her what she wanted. The very next morning he woke her at six, trotted her without breakfast to the piano, and her ordeal began. All day long, the metronome clicking back and forth, he taught the tot to play scales in time. It was not easy. "Father never gave up. He knew exactly how to handle the situation. Every time I made a mistake, he leaned over and, very methodically...
...Symphonies. The Boston Symphony had already been on a "Western tour" (Rochester to Cincinnati); later in Boston it would introduce highly touted Russian Violinist Leonid Kogan and present the novelty of French Saxophone Virtuoso Marcel Mule. The Chicago Symphony was recruiting a brand-new 150-voice choir under famed Choral Conductor Margaret Hillis; the Cleveland Orchestra opened its 40th season with Conductor George Szell directing the first of nine commissioned works: Alvin Etler's Concerto in One Movement...
...take off across the land. They could be ticked off right down the alphabet from A to Z (with the exception of X, since Greek Pianist Anna Xydis is not touring the U.S. this season): Contralto Marian Anderson, the Budapest String Quartet, Pianist Robert Casadesus, Soprano Lisa Delia Casa, Violinist Mischa Elman, Violinist Zino Francescatti, Pianist Emil Gilels, Pianist Clara Haskil, Pianist Eugene Istomin, the Juilliard Quartet, Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick, Baritone George London, Violinist Nathan Milstein, Pianist Guiomar Novae's, the Obernkirchen Children's Choir, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, the Quartette di Roma, Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Guitarist Andr...
...performance of the young Hungarian violinist, Johanna Martzy, in the Brahms Violin Concerto was the major event of the afternoon. Substituting at the last moment, her reading stressed the dramatic qualities of the concerto without neglecting its lyricism. She has enough tone and technique to render the most difficult passages of this difficult work with seeming ease. The first movement cadenza was especially remarkable for its coherence, the sustained ending and orchestral entrance providing a particularly beautiful phrase...
Johanna Martzy, a young Hungarian violinist, will appear with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in Sanders Theater Sunday afternoon, replacing Richard Burgin, first violinist of the Boston Symphony...