Word: violiniste
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FROM The Hague, Israel Shenlker, TIME correspondent in the Benelux countries, reported early last summer that Russia's great violinist, David Oistrakh, might go on a Western tour, including the U.S. Asked to follow up the story, Shenker took a direct approach. "I picked up the phone," he said, "and asked the Dutch operator to get me Oistrakh, a violinist in Moscow...
...astonished operator was dubious but promised to try. Twenty minutes later, she had Oistrakh on the line. Philadelphia-born Correspondent Shenker tried the violinist in four languages, including his dimly remembered college (University of Pennsylvania '47) Russian. But he got nowhere until, on a hunch, he switched to Yiddish. That did it. Since then, Shenker has toured the Scandinavian countries with Oistrakh, and met him again in New York to report this week's story (see Music). FOR his first TIME cover, Vienna Born Artist Henry Koerner whose life and works are well known to TIME-readers, went...
Much of the managerial lore was learned the hard way by League Executive Secretary Helen M. Thompson, 47, an amateur violinist who from 1942 to 1950 was manager of the symphony in Charleston (pop. 73,500). "I made all the usual mistakes in succession," she says cheerfully, "some of them twice." Among her mistakes...
...complete contrast was the style of Bernard Ocko, a professional violinist now the concert master for the "Pipe Dream" orchestra. Ocko played a series of short pieces with a rich, sweet tone and a great use of violin effects, such as harmonics and double stops. Two of the pieces he played, Adagic and Lullabyc were his own; they were written in the Romantic idiom, showed a pleasant knowledge of melodic style, and surely would be successful in an Hungarian Restaurant...
...Frank some fish. Another goldilocks jounces in the door-"to walk the dog," Frank casually explains. An Amazonian brunette, with the look of a lady wrestler in search of a match, wanders in to offer Sinatra a large box of cheese. Also in the field: Celeste Holm, a girl violinist who likes to come over to Frankie's house and fiddle, and a certain Miss Snr (rhymes with fur), who works...