Word: violiniste
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...Person to Person, Ed Murrow served up another entertaining mixture of eggheads and rough diamonds. Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and his mannered British wife, Diana, were full of intellectual pleasantries and happy memories of nights at Windsor Castle playing command performances for the royal family; next came earthy Rocky Graziano, his pretty wife and two shy children. An ex-delinquent, ex-world champion and, presently, a TV actor, Rocky had a fistful of forceful, if ungrammatical, opinions on teen-agers ("they oughta be good"), TV performing ("my director says he'll fire me if I ever turn into an actor...
...dozen name musicians in the U.S. who are both able and willing to play avant-garde music. Because of their talent and their warm sympathy for struggling composers, the Ajemian sisters rank high among this handful. Last week, at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pianist Maro and Violinist Anahid Ajemian played a representative program, including works by Austrian Ernst Krenek, American Alan Hovhaness, the late German Kurt Weill and Spaniard Carlos Surinach. The Ajemians not only played without a fee but ended the evening owing a sizable printer's bill for programs...
...tender . . . dream with me!" Katims will shout in rehearsal, or "Barbaric! Make it barbaric!" "Come on," he once implored the cellos, trying to get them in the mood for Salome's final scene. "I want you to play like a bunch of sluts." At a recent rehearsal with Violinist Nathan Milstein, Katims called a halt to plead with the musicians: "Make it sparkle. Like-not like champagne, I've used that one too often ..." Milstein leaned over to whisper in his ear, and Katims' face lit up. "That's it." he cried, "like Seven...
Thierry finds it hard to remember when he was not drawing. The son of a French orchestra conductor and a violinist mother, he was too frail to begin school until he was eight, spent most of his time at home drawing with colored pencils. At six he got his first oils for Christmas, was soon begging his mother to take him to the Louvre and the Museum of Modern Art. There, she remembers, he showed a marked liking for Sisley and Cézanne, and adds: "Thierry also likes flower shops and jewelry stores. If I didn't drag...
...Homi Jehangir Bhabha, 43, is a handsome, stocky physicist from Bombay, India. He speaks precise English with a Cambridge accent, and is an accomplished painter and violinist. At 31 he became a fellow of the Britain's Royal Society, and he is now the chairman of India's Atomic Energy Comission. In new York last week week, Dr Bhabha explained how India intends to lift itself by its atomic bootstraps...