Word: violiniste
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Schell is fatally dependent on fog machines for atmosphere, never makes a simple cut when he can use a stately and portentous camera movement. He loves strange visual juxtapositions - a leopard roaming around a mansion or a violinist sawing away under a tree in a meadow - because jarring imagery, though it conveys no useful informa tion, is fondly believed to wow the impressionable...
...Violinist Yehudi Menuhin first performed there as a prodigy of eleven; Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein once played piano in its dance studios for $1 an hour. Last week both were back at Carnegie Hall, along with the New York Philharmonic and a contingent of famous colleagues, for a fund-raising gala to celebrate the hall's 85th anniversary. Among the performers: Violinist Isaac Stern, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz, who had come to play at his first nighttime concert in 35 years. The program, which cost up to $ 1,000 per ticket...
Street, who has worked as a free-lance violinist in the Boston area for the last two years, is best known as a composer. In 1973, he won the prestigious Rome Prize for composition and several of his works have been performed in Boston this year...
Died. Meyer Davis, 83, millionaire maestro of a music empire that has included as many as 80 bands and more than 1,000 musicians; in Manhattan. Davis started his own small band when he was rejected as a violinist for his high school orchestra. In 1914, he dropped out of law school to become a full-time bandleader. Seven years later he played at the inaugural party of President Warren Harding and was on his way to becoming a favorite society and college bandteader. So popular was the Davis sound that his bands were booked years in advance and have...
...David Oistrakh, violin; Sviatoslav Richter, piano; Angel Melodiya; $6.98). It was the perfect pairing, Oistrakh and Richter, on the most famous of the Brahms sonatas for violin and piano. This recording was made during a 1972 Moscow recital, 2½ years before the death of the great Soviet violinist. With loving attention to detail, at times unexpectedly puckish. Richter traced each phrase. No question, however, the show belonged to Oistrakh. Springlike and tender or with great gusts of Wagnerian passion, the music flowed from his bow with the ease of raindrops chasing down a windowpane...