Word: violinistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rakowski has lost the support of some of those who were closest to him. His exwife, Violinist Wanda Wilkomirska, is one of eight intellectuals who have bravely signed a petition protesting martial...
...crackdown in an open letter to Jaruzelski. "The introduction of martial law," they declared, "was aimed at depriving society of its voice and subjugating the nation to military dictatorship. History proves, however, that the Polish nation will not submit to such a fate." Originally signed by eight people, including Violinist Wanda Wilkomirska, Writer Marian Brandys and Historian Stefan Kieniewicz, the document was being circulated in Warsaw to gain additional support...
...Kempinski's play is a melancholy partita-two characters, six scenes-about a brilliant violinist struck down in her prime by multiple sclerosis, and the psychiatrist who tries to help her. The plot may seem a tasteless gloss on the career-ending disease of Cellist Jacqueline du Pré. But in its London version, there were no easy answers-no answers at all-for this driven young woman. As played by Frances de la Tour, she was a figure of shy, rueful dignity who achieved heroism by confronting her despair...
...course, the same could not be said of Kreisler's some 200 records. An Austrian violinist with the most distinctive style of the 20th century, he plays his own pieces with poise and beauty...
Kreisler's achievement of learning the craft of composition might be commendable if his method were not Machiavellian--he accomplished his ends by stealing and lying (it was the only way for a violinist to succeed in a field so competitive and demanding.) He filched the style and flavor of classical composers and used them in his own works. Fortunately, he admitted his crimes--for musicologists' sakes--in pieces like "Variations on a Theme of Corelli in the Style of Giuseppe Tartini." But he sometimes tried to fool other composers by publishing old-style pieces under the names of 18th...