Word: violiniste
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...Oistrakh's first Carnegie Hall recital melted American critics. A short (5 ft. 6 in.), pudgy, businesslike performer, Oistrakh produced music with a luminous, flawless tone. In his last years, he grew into a first-rank conductor as well. On hearing of Oistrakh's death, American Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, a close friend, lamented the loss of "a wonderful man ... a sort of friendship bridge among countries all over the world...
Lynn Chang, violinist, and Richard Kogan, pianist. Beethoven: Kreutzer Sonata, and Brahma: Sonata #3 in d minor. Admission $3.00 (students $1.50) for the benefit of the Chinese Language School...
Reed himself admits that he has more in common with Calvin Coolidge than with Dionysus. Bacchanalian plots and extended riffs of funky prose scarcely disguise the conservative folksiness within. Born in Chattanooga and raised in Buffalo, Reed had an early ambition to become a concert violinist. His writing talent surfaced at the University of Buffalo. One of his admirers is another musician-writer, the ranking wizard of experimental fiction, John Barth. After sampling the edges of New York literary life in the early '60s, Reed headed west to Berkeley where he teaches writing at the University of California...
...croisiere de musique off the Côte d'Azur, it had on board a classic boatload of cash and culture. Some 200 music lovers paid up to $4,500 to glide around the Mediterranean to the personal accompaniment of the likes of Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Violinist Alexander Schneider, Flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal and Dancer Rudi Nureyev. Each day the geniuses would entertain the guests. Rostropovich, who left Russia on a two-year visa last May, was the star both on and off stage. He hammed it up on the ship's piano clad in a bathrobe...
...rose to accept the West Virginia Broadcasters Association Distinguished Achievement Award last week, guests at the staid Greenbrier resort expected the standard political speech. Instead, Byrd picked up a violin and to his own accompaniment let loose with a few choruses of Old Joe Clark. "He's no violinist, but he's a damn good fiddle player," judged Association President Bob Brown after Byrd's performance. Actually, Byrd began his music career as a boy back in Stotesbury, W. Va., and began using the violin on the campaign trail to draw a crowd before his speeches...