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...Performance at the White House. Another show for the nation's Presidential mansion, this one featuring violinist Itzhak Perlman and an all-star group of jazz performers...

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, | Title: Rudolph, E. T., and Johnny Cash | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

Beyond the footlights of the concert stage he cavorted like the devil, but oh how Nicolo Paganini could play. Considered the greatest violinist who ever lived, he was electrifying as he hunched his skeletal frame and hawklike features over his magnificent violin, crafted by Giuseppe Guarneri in 1742. "Perpetually conserved" in Italy by the city of Genoa, according to Paganini's will, the prized Guarneri, insured for $800,000, crossed the Atlantic last week, and in the skilled hands of Neapolitan Virtuoso Salvatore Accardo, 40, made its U.S. debut at New York City's Carnegie Hall. "I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 15, 1982 | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

Virtually waist deep in a field of 1,100 child violinists, cellists and pianists who were all taught by his learning-through-imitation method, Shinichi Suzuki waved his bow. Thousands of fingers tensed, and the second annual Chicagoland Suzuki Music Festival began on a note by Veracini (his Sonata in E Minor). Though hundreds of thousands of students have been taught by the Suzuki method since he introduced it more than three decades ago (including Rosalynn and Amy Carter, who took joint lessons in the White House), the 83-year-old master modestly professes to not playing as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 18, 1982 | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

...enjoyed a lucky life. As a Stockholm teenager, she got the first movie job she ever tried for. By the time she turned 24 she had made eleven movies, including Intermezzo, in which she played a young pianist who has a bittersweet affair with an older man, a famous violinist. David O. Selznick had bought the remake rights in 1939 and brought Bergman to Hollywood to re-create her role opposite Leslie Howard. The film made her a star, and Selznick made an image for this shy, frugal, occasionally awkward young woman: no makeup, no eyebrow plucking, no glamorizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Price of Redemption | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

Tall and blond, he looks like a beach boy in his cutoffs and tennis shirt. He is Peter de Vries, 25, with two years toward a doctorate in violin performance at the University of Indiana, and just now the first violinist of the Chautauqua Festival Orchestra. He says something, laughing, to Evan Wilson, 20, the principal violist, and then puts his violin under his chin,and plays an A. A's of various textures rise up from the instruments played by his colleagues, and De Vries sits down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York State: Culture's Front Porch | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

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