Word: violinistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Back from a month's concert tour of England was Violinist Yehudi Menuhin with a different report. The entertainment at the camps there, he said, was too "light and trivial . . . the soldiers need inspiration, need more than a joke"-serious music...
...concertos got to Toronto, nobody knows. Nine years ago a Toronto violinist and collector named Adolph Koldofsky was approached in a Toronto music store by a little Englishman named Barnes who was trying to sell a batch of old musical manuscripts. Barnes, a paper hanger, house painter and grocer who dabbled in collecting, said he had found his manuscripts about 20 years before in a little bookstore at Richmond and York Streets. The shop had since been torn down. Its owner, one Rosenthal, had died...
Died. Professor Arthur Lloyd James, 58, linguistics authority, wife-killer; by his own hand (hanging) ; in his cell at Broadmoor Insane Asylum, England. Professor of phonetics at London University, longtime linguistics adviser to the British Broadcasting Corp., he was committed to the asylum in 1941 after murdering his concert violinist wife, Elsie Owen. He explained to police: "I could not cope with my work. Rather than expect her to face the bleak future, I decided she should...
...important member of the team is Writer Winthrop Sargeant, who has been something of a musical prodigy ever since, at the age of ten, he conducted the People's Symphony of San Francisco through his own composition, A Legend of the Black Forest. For nine years he was violinist in front rank symphony orchestras conducted by Toscanini, Rodzinski, Bruno Walter and Walter Damrosch-but by contrast he has also played in hotel dance bands and in the pit of burlesque and movie houses. He studied for two years in Paris and Vienna-worked on the scores of several Broadway...
...Though he was christened with his concert name, Violinist Ricci's birth certificate, written by a busy and whimsical doctor, lists him as Woodrow Wilson Rich. George, born Feb. 22, is really George...