Word: violiniste
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...Israeli Philharmonic and, from 1963 to 1968, the Chicago Symphony, which finally replaced him with Georg Solti after disputes between Martinon's critics and supporters had plunged the orchestra into a state of near anarchy; after a long illness; in Paris. Martinon, who had trained as a violinist at the National Music Conservatory in the late 1920s, began conducting on short notice. In 1945, while on tour as a violinist, he was asked to take over-largely because the orchestra was performing one of his early compositions-when the conductor fell ill. His successful debut led to invitations from...
...butts struck the door of the apartment near Rapallo where Pound lived à trois with his wife Dorothy and his mistress of many years, a violinist named Olga Rudge. He was taken to a military stockade near Pisa and installed on death row in a steel cage 6 ft. square and open to all weathers. After three weeks of treatment designed to break the spirits of the most hardened criminals, Pound suffered a severe emotional breakdown...
...find him. In a satchel which Carlos had left with a friend in London's Bayswater, they found a passport and a photograph, along with a list of 500 prominent names apparently targeted for kidnaping or assassination, including Playwright John Osborne, his actress wife Jill Bennett and Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. In Paris, police discovered an apartment with a nearly complete ammunition dump of dynamite, submachine guns and homemade bombs, along with equipment to make counterfeit documents. There was also another list of potential murder or kidnap victims, including French politicians, journalists, businessmen and intellectuals, as well as a list...
SCHUBERT: TRIOS, OP. 99 AND 100 (RCA, 2 LPs). Violinist Henryk Szeryng, Cellist Pierre Fournier and Pianist Artur Rubinstein put away their virtuoso ways to collaborate touchingly on two chamber music gems...
...start of a three-week Haydnfest at the Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress and countless homes to which radio station WGMS began beaming daily Haydn programs. The performers include the city's own National Symphony, soloists like Violinist Isaac Stern and Cellist Janos Starker, orchestras and choruses from Yale, Shenandoah Conservatory and Kent State University...