Word: violinistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bewildered by a changing traffic light halfway across a busy Manhattan street corner, famed, 66-year-old Viennese Violinist Fritz Kreisler stumbled into a speeding truck, was taken comatose to a hospital, with fractured skull, other serious injuries...
...under the baton of a music-store proprietor. Last week they were still partly amateur. But with near-professional gusto, in the final concert of its season, the El Paso Symphony bounced through a professional program: Delius, Tchaikovsky, Borodin, the Beethoven first symphony and-with an imported professional soloist, Violinist Henry Temianka -the Lalo Symphonic Espagnole...
When the symphony's assistant concertmaster, Violinist Dr. Eric Spier, is missing during a concert, the orchestra and audience know why. When he arrives late, smiles and raises two fingers, everyone knows it was twins; he is one of El Paso's leading obstetricians. The El Paso Symphony has numerous Mexican players, several Cavalry officers from Fort Bliss. An Indian janitor, Chief Guadalupe Serna, a dead ringer for the brave on the buffalo nickel, plays the bull fiddle. At one time the orchestra's schedule had to be accommodated to the schedule of the Southern Pacific Railroad...
Dean Dixon read music when he was three and a half, gave concerts to imaginary audiences (his mother's idea) when he was five. The Juilliard Institute took him in as a violinist, later spotted conducting possibilities in him. Musician Dixon took a master's degree at the Juilliard Graduate School, is now working at Columbia on a Ph.D. thesis: "The Justification for Editing Classical Scores." In Harlem, between times, he founded Dean Dixon 's Symphony Orchestra, which now has amateur but well-drilled players of every race, aged 12 to 72. The orchestra rehearses weekly, gives...
...rich voice of Marian Anderson, from Hollywood the mean rhythms of Duke Ellington, from Manhattan one of the jaunty routines of the world's No. i tap dancer, Bill Robinson. Among others who crowded a lively hour were Trumpeter Louis Armstrong, Actor Canada Lee (see p. 76), Violinist Eddie South. Of all the performers only three had sponsored berths in radio: Eddie Anderson, the Rochester of the Jack Benny show, Band Leader John Kirby and Comedian Eddie Greene of Duffy's Tavern. Obvious is the reason so few have made the aerial grade: they are Negroes...