Word: violiniste
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...Violinist Diana Halprin last week got a break a lot of musicians wait a lifetime for -and it came at age six. She was engaged to play as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Picked from a field of 17 aspiring moppets, aged six to twelve, Diana will perform at a concert for children next season-the youngest violinist ever to play with the orchestra...
Father Orcka Halprin, onetime violinist with the Detroit Symphony, got the idea his daughter might be a prodigy when he heard her picking out radio tunes on a toy piano at the age of two. He tested her further, discovered she had absolute pitch.* Also, "she was really born with a fiddle hand," broad and dexterous. At three, Diana got her first violin, a four-ounce affair, one-eighth adult size, and began taking lessons from her father...
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (David Oistrakh, violinist, with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, A. V. Gauk conducting; 2 sides LP). Surely one of the great among modern violinists, 42-year-old Oistrakh combines in his playing the suavity of Heifetz and the depth and penetration of Szigeti. Most curious item in another album of Oistrakh favorites: Stephen Foster's Swanee River...
Ruth Posselt, the soloist in the Hindemith, is a magnificent violinist. She adapted herself admirably to the vicissitudes of an amateur orchestra, playing with understanding and beautiful tone, and communicating her enthusiasm for the concerto to the orchestra. The accompaniment was for the most part excellent...
Died. Harold Bauer, 77, British-born concert pianist, who made his debut at nine as a violinist, switched to the piano at 20, became a U.S. citizen in 1921, made world concert tours for half a century, then retired and wrote about them in Harold Bauer: His Book (1948); of a heart ailment; in Miami...