Word: violiniste
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...cover describes the novel as the story of a woman who manages to expiate her past through her work with Soviet Jews. Yet Russian Jews receive little if any treatment in the novel. With the exception of intermittent copies of correspondence between Susan and Leonid Rabinowitz, a radical Russian violinist being persecuted by the Soviet government, the relationship between Susan and Leonid--a crucial relationship in Susan's transcendence--is left undeveloped. Susan ends the narrative by imagining "what it will be like to walk into Leonid's apartment," but unfortunately she leaves the novel appearing almost anticlimatic...
...admissions director, David Busse, quickly learned that one interested high school student, Robert Castaneda, was a trumpet player who also liked math and computers. Busse immediately told Castaneda about Lawrence's music conservatory, pointing out how students can explore two interests at his college: "The first-chair violinist of our orchestra is a biology major." When Castaneda's father asked about the school's computer program, Busse extolled Lawrence's setup: "All our students can get their hands on a computer." After a long conversation, Dad walked away saying, "It sounds like a good college...
...recommendation of the dean of the Juilliard School in New York, where they had taken their ten-year-old son for an evaluation, the Levines in 1953 asked Walter Levin, principal violinist of the LaSalle Quartet, to supervise their son's musical education in Cincinnati...
...score and a desire that his playing call attention only to the music, never to itself, he was also a direct link to the pianistic tradition of the 19th century; when audiences heard Rubinstein perform, they were listening to a man born six months after Liszt died. No wonder Violinist Isaac Stern last week called Rubinstein "part of the centrality of music in our time...
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (Archiv). Forget the 45 other versions in the catalogue. Violinist Simon Standage's dashing performance, with Trevor Pinnock leading the English Concert, is the one to have when you're having only...