Word: violiniste
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...Brother Adolf Busch, violinist (citizen of Switzerland), led his Little Symphony through four of Handel's Concerti Grossi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In his orchestra: wife Frieda (clarinet), daughter Irene (violin), brother Hermann, onetime first cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic (cello...
...musical Busches got their bent from their father, a German shepherd who became a violinist and a violin-maker. He started Fritz at the piano and Adolf on a violin when each was four. "We made music all day, from eight in the morning until midnight," says Fritz. Papa Busch concluded proudly that both Fritz and Adolf had perfect pitch when they identified a locomotive's whistle as F sharp...
Last week Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, back from a European tour, made a strong appeal for the Nazi Staatsrat, made even stronger by the fact that Menuhin is Jewish. He said: "If there is one musician who deserves to be reinstated, it is Furtwängler. ... It is well known that he held on to the Jewish members of his orchestra as long as he possibly could. . . . He would be welcomed in Paris. If Paris can take a German, I'm sure we should have no qualms about...
...long ago they heard of another amateur musician who had just written a bit of music: Actor Lionel Barrymore. They asked for permission to premiere his newest work in Chicago. It turned out to be a piano concerto-which was a little disconcerting. Explained First Violinist Lester Baker, a railway freight statistician: "As a rule accompaniments are so uninteresting to play, but the melodies of the Barrymore concerto lay so well on the various instruments that our members felt impelled to rise to the occasion." Barrymore made just one stipulation: that he be allowed to choose the soloist. He chose...
...Paris last week a tribunal of musicians, including Paul Paray, conductor of the Paris Colonne Symphony, Violinist Jacques Thibaud and famed Catalan Cellist Pablo Casals, got set to try French musicians who danced to the Nazis' tune...