Word: violiniste
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...father in some way." He is forming a twelve-person vocal ensemble he calls Voicestra "to sing and represent me so my music can work while I stay at home." Then there's Scrabble. And Hermann Hesse too. "There's a wonderful Hesse story," McFerrin says, "about a violinist who wishes to be the best in the world. His wish is granted, and as he's playing, he slowly disappears into the music. That's the hope of every artist. It's certainly mine." Fine, Bobby. Just don't slip away too soon...
That concert was several continents back. Since then, Rachlevsky has lived in Israel, Canada and the U.S., but in some ways the violinist, now bearded and barrel-chested, is still squinting into the audience to discern the identity of his benefactors. Lately, it seems, they are as elusive as his long-ago Moscow audience...
...Saturday, April 9, Rachlevsky led the New American Chamber Orchestra as it played its final concert. Rachlevsky had established his beloved chamber group as a part-time orchestra in 1978 after stints with the Moscow and Israel chamber orchestras. For Misha Rachlevsky the violinist (even while he was a violinist for the Detroit Symphony), creating his own chamber orchestra was a chance to become Misha Rachlevsky the impresario...
...Rachlevsky has put his heart and soul and lifeblood in this to make it go," says Madeleine Phillips of Grosse Pointe Farms, who has attended the concerts for seven years. "He's the artistic director, the manager of the outfit, the principal violinist. He did it all -- legwork to advertising. He almost cloned himself...
Katharine Dickson is the daughter of Harry Ellis Dickson, a former violinist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the retired associate director of the Boston Pops. Her home was a lively one, with musicians and artists as frequent guests. At an early age she took up modern dance, and later became a teacher of it. Her nickname comes from her mother's friend, the vivacious actress Kitty Carlisle Hart...