Word: violiniste
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...Hungarian-born Joseph Szigeti, 50, famed "violinist's violinist" and ardent Benny Goodman fan, is also Jewish...
Fondling the fiddle which had brought him momentary fame, he was asked whether he could play it. Said Julius Klorfein: "If I was a violinist, I wouldn't be able to buy a million dollars worth of war bonds...
...become a Wag, a dog must be a pure-bred or crossbred weighing at least 50 lb., between one and five years old, at least 20 inches tall at the shoulder, physically and temperamentally sound. Among the dogs already enlisted are Violinist Jascha Heifetz' great Dane, Information Pleaser Franklin P. Adams' collie, Author Hendrik Van Loon's Newfoundland...
Before Auer went there, great Russian violinists were scarcer than caviar on a peasant's table. By the time he left Europe, in 1919, to spend his declining years at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, he had made the term "Russian violinist" as much a commonplace as "Italian tenor." Critics sometimes complained that Auer's Russians sacrificed elegance and emotion for pyrotechnics and schmalz. But it had to be admitted that nobody could touch Auer for teaching luscious tone quality, machinelike fleetness and accuracy of fingerwork...
Short, impassive Milstein fully seizes such melodious, bravura opportunities as the Tchaikovsky and Max Bruch concertos (both of which he has recorded for Columbia). But he is also among the most sensitive living interpreters of Beethoven's and Bach's violin music. To aging Violinist Fritz Kreisler (see cut) he is the greatest of today's younger generation of violinists. Unlike most Russian fiddlers, he had a wealthy father (a wool importer). Milstein was born in Odessa, was sent to the Imperial Conservatory at the age of eleven. The revolution stopped his violin lessons, but he went...