Word: violiniste
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...great Unfinished Symphony. In Vienna he was first just the thirteenth child of a Moravian peasant-schoolmaster and a dreary cook in a middle-class family. He was the bushy-haired, undersized choirboy in the Imperial Chapel, the one with the thick spectacles. He was the feeble violinist in a small school orchestra. He was the round-shouldered fellow teaching in his father's parish school to dodge military service. He was the awkward, pasty-faced composer drifting about the city with never enough money to buy his own music paper...
...Yehudi Menuhin, who after two years abroad, has upset the tradition that a child prodigy can never be a great artist. Out he came on to the great Civic Auditorium stage, a chunky child in the white socks, silk blouse and velvet breeches of the conventional boy violinist. Over his face spread a wide, confiding smile. Up to his chin went the violin ? itself not quite man-sized ? and the concert began...
...metre bar in terms of the wave length of cadmiun light. It was he who helped devise the Michelson-Morley experiment in interference of light, with bearing on the Einstein theory. But the learned world did not know him as a former naval officer, nor as an excellent violinist, nor as a keen tennis player, nor as an amateur of literature and drama. A self-taught artist, Dr. Michelson had his only instruction in drawing as a midshipman at Annapolis...
...musical background. His mother died when he was three. His father, a Polish farmer, was banished to Siberia for his mutterings against Russian rule. The boy wanted to be a pianist but he had small, stubby hands that would not reach an octave. His first teacher was a violinist with scant knowledge of the keyboard...
...Vagabond stood irresolute, no, he was sitting--and silent. Just then the music swung into pianissimo and the violinist rendered a vocal solo. The Vagabond listened, hoping, nay praying, for a suggestion in the words that might provide a topic for small talk, however banal. The violinist's voice was excellent....What was he saying...