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Nora also has a new fan. Last summer, when Impresario Sol Hurok's secretary asked her to meet another of Hurok's clients, she snorted "A musician? Bah! They're all such egotists." Top-rank, young (29) Violinist Isaac Stern felt the same way about ballerinas, even though he had never paid much attention to ballet, had only seen a part of Les Sylphides once when Hurok had dragged him along. Nora and Isaac, married in November, now think there are exceptions...
...Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and wife called at the Vatican for a "very pleasant talk" with Pope Pius XII, a onetime violinist himself (he took lessons for five years in his youth...
...composition instructor at the Juilliard School of Music, Peter finds that "if you lead a normal life, you have more time to compose." Anyway, he says, "to be bohemian is old hat." He and his violinist wife, Georganne, 24, whom he met at Eastman and married last year, manage to stay out of each other's artistic hair by dividing up their six-room apartment on Riverside Drive: he composes in a room at one end of the apartment while she practices in a room at the other...
When Russian-born Violinist Tossy Spivakovsky made San Francisco sit up and take notice a year ago with his blazing performance of Bela Bartok's Violin Concerto (TIME, Jan. 26, 1948), critics and music lovers wondered if he could keep up the pace. Fellow violinists said that Tossy had made the difficult Bartok concerto his own, but that playing the classic concertos might be a different story. Since then Tossy has proved that Bartok is just one well-done chapter in his concert book...
Most listeners find it hard to decide what it is about 39-year-old Violinist Spivakovsky's playing they like most. His technique is flawless, and his tone is big and humid. Some wonder if he gets both his tone and technique by holding his bow-arm elbow so high; orthodox violin teachers tell students who go to his concerts: "Listen but don't look." Wherever he gets it, Tossy's violin has power...