Word: violiniste
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...Sonata No. 2. He also kept his volume down so that the right hand of the piano, which is equal to the flute in trio sonata style, could be heard. In Bach's Second Violin Sonata Michael Day played with admirable musicianship; Bertram Baldwin accompanied at the harpsichord. Violinist David Hurwitz closed his part of the concert with a fine performance of Handel's Sonata in F. He played with restraint and a warm tone, and was ably assisted by Jonathan Thackeray, harpsichord, and Mary Davidoff, continuo...
Music IN OUR TIME began last year as the inspiration of New York Violinist Max Polikoff, who felt that the public was starved for new music and that contemporary composers deserved a wider hearing ("Death doesn't enhance them, only possibly their music"). With the aid of Manhattan Y.M.H.A. Education Director William Kolodney, Polikoff set up an eight-concert Sunday-afternoon series on modern music with a minimal $5 subscription fee, attracted enthusiastic audiences to the Y.M.H.A.'s Kaufmann Auditorium. This season the series has expanded to ten concerts, all of them performed by first-rate players. Although...
...Budapest sold out the 500-seat hall). Dean Paul A. McGhee of N.Y.U.'s Division of General Education hopes to enlarge the series further by 1958, believes there is an audience for chamber music in lower Manhattan. This week at N.Y.U., the Totenberg Instrumental Ensemble, headed by distinguished Violinist Roman Totenberg, will play Bach, Hindemith's Trauermusik,. Vivaldi's Winter Concerto (from the Four Seasons...
...tries in his sleep to break open the coffin in the ship's refrigeration room, the coffin which he comes to realize contains his own corpse. Other characters from the hospital scene reappear on the ship: the gentle, inefficient nurse, as Arcularis' first serious love; the anesthetist as a violinist; the house surgeon as a minister. There is a free field for inference and speculation...
...schmalz Violinist George Liberace, inseparable brother of schmalz Pianist Wladzui Valentino Liberace, strolled through the Chicago night, two thugs pulled up alongside in a maroon convertible, hopped out and accosted him. One growled: "Give us everything you have!" George politely declined, was slugged with a pistol, soon roused from a fog to tot up his losses: $50 in cash, a $1,500 onyx and diamond ring, a $25,000 fiddle (the violin was located, along with two prime suspects, at week...