Word: violiniste
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...great national theater) returned to Paris last week with delighted reports of how Georgy Malenkov, Scourge of the Bourgeoisie, had attended a performance of Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme-and had afterward treated some of the cast to candy and champagne. The U.S.S.R.'s famed Violinist David Oistrakh and Pianist Tatiana Nikolaieva recently concertized in Argentina, a Russian concert group is touring Canada, and the Soviet Ballet is preparing to open in Paris, its first appearance in Western Europe since World War II. And in London's Stoll Theater, a less-renowned Soviet dance group...
...guest stint with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony last week, Violinist Tossy Spivakovsky offered a careful balance: something old, something new. First he flooded the hall with the singing airs of Mozart's Adagio in E. Then, tucking his fiddle under his chin again and staring intently at his stubby fingers, he launched into the amiable and sometimes pyrotechnic moods of Gian-Carlo Menotti's two-year-old Violin Concerto. As always, his tone was luxuriant, his pitch impeccable, and he brought the music to full-blooded life. From Manhattan's experienced audience, the modern work drew...
Russian-born Violinist Spivakovsky learned to balance his repertory by experience. When he arrived in the U.S. in 1940 (at the age of 33), he already had 20 years of concert experience. He could spin out the Tchaikovsky Concerto with every Slavic sob intact, and he was the master, in lofty interpretations, of the Beethoven and Brahms concertos as well...
...picture's musical score of popular classics is interpreted with spirit on the sound track by Pianist Claudio Arrau and Violinist Michael Rabin. There are also some Alps in the background, Technicolor and plenty of overdecorated interiors. Elizabeth Taylor wears beautiful clothes, and Vittorio Gassman, when he plays the fiddle in a ski suit, is the most dashing thing of the kind since the lovesick violinist in the perfume...
...mild and smoothly flowing work, entitled Elegy, written by Violinist-Composer Clarence Cameron White, 73-year-old Manhattan Negro. White's approximate recipe for tranquillity: a light batter of equal parts of Brahms and Saint-Saëns, seasoned with a pinch of Ravel. The audience gave Elegy rather tranquil applause, but roused to give Composer White himself a hearty burst when he appeared to take...