Word: violiniste
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...Honolulu, sometime Violinist Jack (Love in Bloom) Benny got together after 45 years with his old violin teacher, retired Yale Professor Hugo Kortschak, who remembered him as 14-year-old Benny Kubelsky at the Chicago Musical College. "My, how you've grown," said the professor. Benny, a grown-up 59, recalled that he "was crazy to be a concert violinist. But I'm like most golfers-I like to play, but I never practiced." After the chat, the professor remarked on the pity of it all: "He probably would have gone far. He showed a lot of promise...
...Canon City, Colo. (pop. 6,345) last week, 100 listeners aged four to twelve sat cross-legged on the floor around the LaSalle String Quartet. The first violinist began an explanation of the music to come: "We are like four people having a conversation, but we use our instruments instead of our voices. We start out rather quietly, but then a great argument develops. After a while we calm down again, and then each waits his turn to speak. We all have our say, and finally we are all agreed." Then the quartet put the various parts together and played...
...Composer Haydn, overworked and burdened with family troubles, got the notations on the last page of his score all mixed up. Later, he corrected his mistakes, wrote at the bottom of the score: "1m Schlaf geschrieben" (Written in my sleep).** Aubrey, who had outstanding breath control, once bet Violinist Harry Blech that he could sustain a note longer than Blech. Violinist Blech, drawing out one stroke as long as possible, lost to Aubrey, who held one note for 75 seconds...
Died. Albert Spalding, 64, world-famed American violinist; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. Chicago-born son of Sporting-Goods Millionaire James W. Spalding, he made his musical debut in Paris at the age of 16, became America's first internationally famed violin virtuoso. Spalding regularly toured the U.S. and Europe as a soloist, was the first American violinist ever to be invited to play with Paris' Conservatory Orchestra...
...Boston Chamber of Commerce yesterday sent an invitation to visit Boston to Edna Ferber, noted violinist, who recently declared on a return from Europe that New York was a "disgustingly dirty city." Boston Globe