Word: violiniste
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Barbara Sorenson Radcliffe violinist, will appear in Paine Hall this evening for her senior recital. Accompanied by Norma Bertoiami Sapp. Miss Sorenson will play works by Hindsmith, Bach, and Beethoven...
Permanent Drift. Born in Manhattan, Feininger started out to be a musician. His father was a violinist, his mother a pianist and Lyonel eventually became both. He was a shy and lonely boy who practiced four or five hours a day, then listened for hours more to his parents' performances. When he was 16, his father decided that he should continue his studies in Leipzig. But the professor his father wanted him to have was away. While waiting in Hamburg for his return, Lyonel drifted into studying...
...Elysian Fields, Concertizing with the Lyric Shades) and the musical portraits are nothing short of amazing. In Subterranean Commotion Made by the Contemporary Authors of Lully, the string of the chamber orchestra make rumbling noises by means of a quasi-tremulo. In a violin duet called Air Leger, one violinist is playing in French style to represent Lully, while the other plays in the Italian manner, representing Corelli...
Rameau's Troisieme Concert opened the program. This is fragile stuff--even the rolicking tambourins that come at the end lose all their effectiveness if not played with the utmost delicacy. The performances by violinist Orrea Pernel, cellist George Finckel, and pianist Claude Frank were decidedly unidiomatic. Their tone was harsh, their phrasing stiff, and their technique heavy-handed...
...Carlos Chávez boomed from their radio. Viviane Bertolami, a tall, dark-haired girl with a passing resemblance to Hedy Lamarr, was even more intent than her husband, Murray Kirkwood, an employee of I.T. & T. Before she married at 18, she had made her debut as a concert violinist; at 22, she had a child to think about, but she also wanted to pick up her career again. The Kirkwoods made "the decision of our lives." They would use their savings to commission a concerto for Viviane by Chávez . Composer Chávez accepted...