Word: violinistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flight 3 moved on through the night, into a bright Midwestern dawn. At Albuquerque, N.Mex., room had to be found for 15 officers and men of the Army ferry command, returning to their Coast base. Four passengers gave up their seats: one was Violinist Joseph Szigeti...
France. Once closely associated were Pianist Alfred Cortot, Violinist Jacques Thibaud, Cellist Pablo Casals. Today thin, aging Pianist Cortot is a member of the Vichy State Council, ranks as guardian of France's musical tradition. Although in recent years he has conducted more than he has played, he still gives piano concerts. Violinist Thibaud, for a time heartbroken by the loss of a son in the war, now plays in Occupied and Unoccupied France. Cellist Casals, contrary to rumor, is not in concentration camp, although as a Catalan partisan of the Loyalists he is out of favor with...
...Violinist Hubermann, 59-year-old Polish Jew, has often been rated one of Europe's greatest, but in the U.S. and London he has never been such big box office as mellow Fritz Kreisler, brilliant Jascha Heifetz, musicianly Joseph Szigeti. Hubermann is finicky, fussy on the platform. Once he noticed that his audience included a dog, on a woman's lap. He stopped playing, demanded: "Madam, has your little dog paid for his ticket?", waited while woman and dog were hustled...
...Violinist Hubermann was the first musician of renown to refuse to play in Hitler's Germany. He has written two books on plans for a United States of Europe. A onetime resident of Vienna, he believes that Germany and Austria should be separated. In an interview after his recent arrival in Manhattan, he danced a Viennese waltz to demonstrate his conviction that Poles and Russians play Viennese music without the "beery heaviness" of the Germans...
Chairman of the board and founder of the orchestra is a blonde, fast-talking, 29-year-old female violinist. So intent has she been in keeping herself and the rest of the group anonymous that TIME'S Hollywood correspondent declared: "To divulge her name would be the worst possible breach of journalistic faith." The Symphony invites conductors, well and little known, to preside over its sessions. José Iturbi, Igor Stravinsky, Georg Szell, Arnold Schönberg were glad of the chance. Erich Wolfgang Korngold, highbrow-turned-movie-composer, showed up with only 16? in his pocket. Nine members...