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This year's violin section (often the weakspot in amateur orchestras) is generally quite strong. The concertmaster, Deno Geanakaplos 3G, was a first violinist in the Minneapolis symphony Orchestra. Also, many of the University's better violinists who have been unable to attend in the past years are playing with the orchestra...
...called it "crème de la crème." The first concert, with the Pro Arte Quartet, drew only 559 fans, but even that was 200 more than they expected. Since then things have picked up. His biggest triumph came last year when he got Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Violinist Jascha Heifetz and Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky to play together, and packed Ravinia with a record-breaking 10,000 fans (TIME...
...seventh week." And he was even getting in a little second fiddling of his own. While his family sprawled on the living-room rug, he clamped a Stradivarius under his chin, launched into a Mozart quartet with three members of the famed Paganini Quartet. Grinned little First Violinist Henry Temianka: "He didn't get lost once." Said Second Fiddler Knight: "I only play with good musicians. Two punks would ruin the music...
Hollywood Bowl Concert (Sat. 3 p.m., NBC). Yehudi Menuhin, guest violinist...
...rooms. This summer, some 250 youngsters from 30 countries are playing, singing and waving batons in the palazzo's luxurious galleries and chambers. By month's end, the 70 most talented of them will have started an intensive two-month course under such topnotch musicians as Violinist-Composer Georges Enesco, Guitarist Andres Segovia and Conductor Paul van Kampen. In September, a score or more of the best students will have Chigi-sponsored debuts...