Word: violiniste
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...tribute on every record made. Since then, Little Caesar had won every battle. He had split the solid record-company front by signing up Decca (and 100-odd small-fry companies) a year ago. Then he defied the War Labor Board, boldly ignored an appeal by President Roosevelt. Suddenly, Violinist Jascha Heifetz switched from RCA to Decca. Victor and Columbia could see droves of other topnotch artists leaving their stables. After last week's election, they caved in. All hope of beating the union boss had gone...
...paper, Haggin has a comic gift for impersonating musical stuffed shirts. He can also tell howlers on himself: once, at a concert, when he glared at Violinist Jacques Gordon, who was noisily shuffling a score, Gordon glared back at the noiseless Haggin and growled: "Shut...
Born on Manhattan's Third Avenue 40 years ago, Bendix was the son of a singer, had one uncle who was a concert violinist, another who was a conductor at the Metropolitan. Spurning the family profession, he started life as a bat-boy for the New York Giants, later did some amateur acting at the Henry Street Settlement. He became a grocery clerk while still in his teens, eventually wound up as manager of a store in Orange...
...Albeneri Trio is made up of Alexander Schneider, former second violinist for the world-famous Budapest String Quartet, Benar Heifetz, first cellist for the NBC Symphony, and Erich Kahn, well-known pianist-composer...
Former concertmaster of the Symphony Orchestras of Frankfort, Saarbrucken, and Hamburg, Alexander Schneider was second violinist of the famed Budapest Quartet, which toured Europe, North Africa, the East Indies, Australia and America with a success yet unequalled by any other chamber organization...