Word: violiniste
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...Concerto for Three Violins last week, ended up by drawing lots. Isaac Stern and Yehudi Menuhin drew first and third. The second part went to Italy's Gioconda de Vito, 46, all but unknown in the U.S. but usually called Europe's No. 1 woman violinist...
...Violinist de Vito, a handsome, erect woman with grey hair and dark eyes, was opening-night soloist. On the concert stage, she showed her Latin dash at once, tucking her violin under her chin with a flourish, then working both hands in the air to limber them before attacking the music. Her tone had none of the acid brilliance of a Heifetz, but in roundness and warmth resembled Kreisler's. She scorned fireworks or virtuosity. "She is an artist," said one De Vito fan, "not a virtuoso." In the Vivaldi concerto last week her violin was warm and passionate...
...Violinist Yehudi Menuhin took time out from a punishing European concert tour to climb Switzerland's 9,757-ft. Mt. Schilthorn. delighted his wife and companions after the six-hour ascent by standing on his head at the peak and running through his yoga exercises...
...show opens in a stiff-backed summer camp at Brunswick, Me. (in the original, the scene was Thebes), where a young matron named Eurydice Orpheus is shamelessly cuckolding her husband, a struggling violinist. Her lover: one John Stick, a dull poet. Enter Pluto, in the guise of a soft-drink peddler, who offers the lovers a permanent visit to Hades. Sample of his spiel...
...Grand Prix, Le Mans, the Mille Miglia. Superstitious, he liked always to have a hunchback friend nearby when he raced, for good luck. He always wore the same yellow sweater, blue pants and tricolored scarf. Italians said of Nuvolari, as they had long before said of their spellbinding violinist, Paganini. that he had "a pact with the devil." This belief was strongly supported by Nuvolari's chief European rival, Achille Varzi. In the 1930 Mille Miglia, Varzi was coasting along the homestretch at night, confident that he was far in the lead. For miles, he had noticed no headlights...