Word: violiniste
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...misconception of science students being "intense" or "grindy." Soon after I began interviewing students and professors in these disciplines, however, my ideas about science students drastically changed. The students I spoke with had enormously varied interests and backgrounds; there was a football player from Hawaii, a female violinist from New Mexico, the captain of the Harvard men's sailing team, a Canadian woman active in nuclear war deterrence, a female ROTC member whose sister fights fires in Chicago, and a gregarious Black woman engineer who is involved not only in many campus organizations, but also maintains two jobs in Boston...
Since September the venture has acquired some new features and a few additions to the "Board of Mavens" (Yiddish for self-appointed experts). The panel now includes cellist Yo-Yo Ma '76, violinist Itzhak Perlman, the Boston Celtics' Red Auerbach, the owner of Boston's kosher Milk Street Cafe, and Sheldon Cohen of Out of Town News...
...IMMORTAL FRITZ KREISLER (RCA). The fabled Viennese-born violinist in showpieces, bonbons and a quicksilver Beethoven sonata...
...with glasses in a white dinner jacket and purple slacks who is also the minister of music at his church; Debbie the drummer, an ex- prom queen in a strapless gown who exchanges one pink pump for a running shoe, the better to thump her bass drum; Mary the violinist, of stern Scandinavian stock, uptight, humorless and "best remembered locally for her performance as Anita in West Side Story"; and Mike the gentle, wistful synthesizer player who found himself during the 1967 Summer of Love and once played with an acid- rock band called Thursday's Grief. They are terribly...
...young couple smiled and waved at the conductor, returning to their seats to socialize. The little girl on my other side was still hanging onto the ledge which overlooked the orchestra. An elderly violinist looked up, saw the little girl, and waved her bow ever so slightly. She then looked at my friend and me, her face blank. We returned to our seats...