Word: violiniste
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...Boston Symphony Orchestra's Conductor Charles Munch, the new concerto was "horribly difficult," but it had its good features; it "exploited the orchestra very adroitly, used the modern language" effectively and, altogether, it was "très intéressant." Pudgy Violinist Isaac Stern agreed. He had "worked and worked until the music was part of me." When his fiddling was finished, he grinned up into the balcony of Symphony Hall, then hammed his exit offstage, staggering as if brutally exhausted. Up in the balcony, smiling Composer William Schuman seemed satisfied with the rehearsal for the world premiere...
...Bruno Walter, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Georges Enesco, Nathan Milstein and Jennie Tourel all rose to add their tributes to the refrain. Finally a towered cake with 75 candles was carried in. While more than 400 guests stood and applauded and a string ensemble played his own Liebesfreud, white-haired old Violinist Fritz Kreisler got to his feet to blow out the candles...
...interpretations. The son of a Viennese physician, he had already won all the gold medals Vienna and Paris could offer at their conservatories. But, as he reminded ambitious youngsters last week, he had had to wait until he was 40 before he could earn "a good living" as a violinist. "I am sorry when I hear of a young artist suddenly becoming rich. Wealth and lack of worry are bad for an artist...
...Violinist Kreisler could smile at the memory of a gentle hoax: for years he programmed his own compositions-the Praeludium and Allegro, Menuet, Concerto in C Major-as "transcriptions" of the works of old masters. He thought it "tactless to repeat my name endlessly on the programs...
...Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II) wheels into position another of the aggressively picturesque families that enjoy great popularity on Broadway. The Bonnards, headed by jaunty, Gallic grandpere (Edgar Stehli), are French-Canadians living in Ottawa in the early 19205. There are grandpère's three sons-a "crazy violinist" (Claude Dauphin), a round-the-clock tosspot (Kurt Kasznar), and a round-the-town ladies' man (Richard Hart); his often disapproving Scottish-Presbyterian daughter-in-law (Leora Dana); and his grandson (Johnny Stewart) who stands on the curb of adolescence waiting for his voice to change. When a pretty...