Word: violiniste
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...comically mismatched look of Sergeant Bilko's platoon. It includes a 300-lb. spring maker, a Welsh barrister, a teacher from the Scottish highlands and an insurance manager from one of London's blue-blood suburbs. Their leader is an engaging aristocrat, Jeremy Thorpe, 44, an amateur violinist and accomplished mimic whose ancestors were serving in Parliament in the 14th century. Now the band has been joined by David Austick, a bald lay preacher and bookseller, and Clement Freud, an antic journalist and television personality who, besides being Sigmund's grandson, is best known to the British...
...notable. A bebop set led by Dizzy Gillespie and Art Blakey was marked by bizarre incidents as well as musical highlights. Art Blakey amused the audience by running on and off stage carrying his cymbals as the fanatics pleaded for an encore. The height of weirdness came when a violinist with a shaved head and a black cape (name unknown--referred to merely as "The Phantom") lurked around the stage in the middle of the first number. His ostentatiousness led the other musicians to bar him from taking a solo in the second number...
...admitted almost as an afterthought. But as the school develops, the boys and girls compete on an equal level, emotionally and socially. And the girls are trained both for their lives as mothers and as professionals. It is true that most marry, but for the boy who is a violinist, there is a girl who becomes a sculptress. For the boy who becomes a journalist, there is a girl who becomes a famous and respected physician...
...talent at 15 and is mediocre at 20." Given parental idiosyncrasies, the denial of childish games, the pressures of concert life, it is a won der any of them survive at all. Yet they do. Beethoven, Mozart and Mendelssohn made it and, since Rubinstein's emergence, so have Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, Conductor Lorin Maazel and Pianist Lorin Hollander, among others. Three of the latest entrants in the prodigy sweepstakes...
LILIT GAMPEL: A wispy, delicate child who looks younger than her 13 years, Lilit is an astonishingly assured violinist who appeared as soloist last year with the New York Philharmonic and Seattle Symphony, was seen and heard two weeks ago on the Dick Cavett Show, and has just completed a recital tour of California, Washington and Utah. Home is a comfortable, bookish old Spanish house in Los Angeles. Father Leonard is a physicist, Mother Eva a biochemist; neither is a musician. Brother Alan, 9, much to Lilit's annoyance, is as dedicated to the drums as the piano...