Word: violiniste
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...fugue" which Beethoven composed as a finale to his String Quartet B Flat so irritated audiences that his publisher persuaded him to write a simpler finale, issue his pet fugue separately. Now recognized as a titan among fugues, it comes to life eloquently, pulsingly in the first album of Violinist Adolf Busch's reorganized chamber musicians, who made their U.S. debut earlier this year (TIME, March...
What the audience saw were the externals of the performance. Apple-cheeked Violinist Adolf Busch, acting as concertmaster, nodded his head, lifted his elbow occasionally as he fiddled, but used no baton. Behind this skin-deep sign of novelty lay a sinewy idea: Adolf Busch had chosen to build an orchestra that functioned, not like an orchestra, but like a string quartet...
...picked the hard way. Orchestral players are kept together, after a few rehearsals, by the conductor's beat; quartet players keep together by the kind of intuition that good bridge partners have, developed through countless hours of playing together. When Violinist Busch formed his Chamber Music Players in Switzerland in 1935, he took his own Busch String Quartet as a nucleus, held 70 rehearsals before the orchestra's debut concert. When he reassembled the group in the U.S. last May (with a few changes in personnel), he persuaded the musicians to rehearse for ten months...
Marion Sommer started life in middle-class Vienna; toured Germany as a violinist until she ruined her wrist in a train wreck; helped get out a Socialist news paper in South Germany until the outbreak of World War I; took lovers, of whom the best one fell in Belgium; befriended a lonely archduchess and nursed and under-ate throughout the war; had two children, one by a man who was not her husband; beheld and took part in the miseries of German post-war democracy; was sent to Soviet Russia as a skillful toymaker and there married a U.S. industrialist...
Flight 3 moved on through the night, into a bright Midwestern dawn. At Albuquerque, N.Mex., room had to be found for 15 officers and men of the Army ferry command, returning to their Coast base. Four passengers gave up their seats: one was Violinist Joseph Szigeti...