Word: violiniste
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Engaged-Yehudi Menuhin, 21, concert violinist and onetime boy prodigy; and Nola Nicholas, 19, redheaded daughter of an Australian aspirin maker. Violinist Menuhin proposed to Miss Nicholas by long-distance telephone (Holland to Melbourne...
...Andy Arcari, could claim the title. Accordionist Arcari, who had given previous recitals in Pittsburgh and Toledo, played a program ranging from Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue to Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen. Said Critic Henry Pleasants: "Here was a brilliance in scale and arpeggio passages that many a violinist or pianist could envy." Virtuoso Arcari, who makes most of his living teaching and playing for swank parties in Philadelphia, has often been heard at the White House in Washington...
...when a student, she heard Composer-Pianist Franz Liszt play in Budapest in 1870, heard Composer Richard Wagner conduct in Vienna in 1876. Fellow students with her were Conductor Artur Nikisch and Composer-Conductor Gustav Mahler (TIME, Feb. 7). She heard Russian Pianist Anton Rubinstein (Melody in F), Spanish Violinist Pablo de Sarasate (Zigeunerweisen), took piano lessons from Clara Schumann, gifted wife of Composer Robert Schumann...
MOZART: DIVERTIMENTO No. 15 IN B FLAT MAJOR (Joseph Szigeti & chamber orchestra; Columbia: 8 parts). Violinist Szigeti, rated tops by connoisseurs, gets all there is out of Mozart's melodic delicacies. The accompaniment is spotty...
Married. Maria Virginia Zimbalist, 22, daughter of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist and of onetime Opera Singer Alma Gluck; to Newport & Manhattan Socialite Ogden Goelet, 30; in Manhattan...