Word: violiniste
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...waiters when Mitterrand dropped into Scott's Seafood Grill for a late-night snack. Ceremony was restored by Mayor Dianne Feinstein, who feted Mitterrand at a city hall gala. He smiled stoically as an Army brass band oompahed its way through La Marseillaise, then beamed when Violinist Isaac Stern took the podium...
...create on their own. They will not be able to see your reasons. Toscanini was a very great conductor, but he was not a great musician." Despite the work load and the stream of mysterious utterances, many Curtis students love him. Says Concertmaster Susan Synnestvedt, a third-year violinist: "He feels there is a truth in music, and it should be discovered...
DIED. Ditra Flame, 78, onetime violinist and missionary who was known as the Lady in Black for her mournful visitations to the tomb of Silent Screen Star Rudolph Valentino; in Ontario, Calif. Flame (pronounced Flah-may) never tired of recounting that when she was deathly ill at age 14, she was visited by Family Friend Valentino, who assured her she would survive and asked her to visit his grave if he should die, saying, "I fear loneliness more than anything in the world." After Valentino's fatal appendicitis at age 31 in 1926, Flame brought 13 roses...
...technological obsolescence. Although the machine was intended as a tool for composers, its talent for mimicry has made it a cost-effective, ersatz orchestra. Classical musicians, who play a largely 18th and 19th century repertory, are unlikely ever to be cashiered, but others are not so lucky. Complains Violinist Paul Shure, a California studio musician: "Synthesizers have all but ruined string players in recordings." Five years ago, Don Butterfield, a New York City tubist, played about 150 television and radio commercials a year, a lucrative source of income for a freelancer; today, he averages fewer than...
...object of all pre-pubescent female desire in Little Darlings and Eurostud in Private Benjamin, Armand Assante competently plays the lover apparent and star violinist. Where violinist Stein should be unconscious, Armand Assante keeps his eyes closed. Throughout the entire film, he plays the self-centered seducer, and yet he never takes himself so seriously as to make his character one-dimensional and boring...