Word: violiniste
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...Violinist Yehudi Menuhin's wife, Nola, who divorced him last fortnight, got a license in Manhattan to marry Businessman Anthony Arthur Williams...
Doubt about the workability of consigning the saxophonist, clarinetist, spinet piano thumper, and the "just learning" violinist who inhabit his entry to Holden solitude was expressed by Proctor Jerrold Scoutt 3L last night. He had no doubts about the desirability...
Things have been humming ever since. Last winter, Serkin and his father-in-law, Violinist Adolf Busch, gave a benefit concert in nearby Brattleboro and raised $3,800 to start the money-raising ball rolling. All summer, carpenters and masons have pounded nails and poured concrete to convert the colonial farmhouses for college use. For weeks an advance party of prospective Marlboro students has been working too. That is part of the Hendricks idea: at Marlboro, city-bred students will learn to use their hands: raise pigs, tap maple trees, make their own skis...
This week, confident behind the big tone and brilliant technique which resembles the work of Jascha Heifetz, the violinist he most admires, Isaac Stern again took his place on the stage in front of another San Franciscan, walrus-mustached Pierre Monteux, the first conductor of the season at Lewisohn. Said Isaac: "When I look back, I tremble to think of other kids going through the same thing...
Died. Bronislaw Hubermann, 64, Polish-born violinist, rated among Europe's best; at Nant sur Corsier, Switzerland. Noted for his virtuosity (at 13, Hubermann played Brahms for Brahms himself, moved him to tears), Hubermann was one of the first artists to leave Hitler's Germany, spent much of his time thereafter organizing the Palestine Symphony of Tel Aviv and scribbling books in support of a United States of Europe...