Word: violinistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Looking back on 25 years with the Beaux Arts Trio, cellist Bernard Greenhouse comments. "I think it's a miracle! Twenty-five years is a long time to be together: I'm surprised we're still talking to each other." Indeed Greenhouse and his companions, violinist Isidore Cohen and pianist Menahem Pressler, are still the closest of friends, in spite of the strain of playing more than 125 concerts around the world every year. One reason the group has kept its sanity over the years is that the members maintain a distinct separateness when not on tour. They hardly ever...
...morons who interrupt even his phone calls with requests for photos, autographs, jobs, charity appearances, sex, or a hearing for some stupendously bad idea for a new movie. In addition, he's trying to get his current lady (Barrault) to leave her husband for him, flirting with a Philharmonic violinist (Harper), and obsessed with has long-lost relationship with the manic-depressive Dorrie (Rampling). Oh yes, the studio wants to change the ending of his latest film...
...demanding instruments such as the horn and the oboe already had four performance weeks. The precise details of the settlement awaited this week's ratification vote, but it almost certainly represented a mutually acceptable tradeoff. "We got to the top in more ways than the 17th floor," exults Violinist Sandor Balint. The management is just as happy. "I'm elated," says Bliss. The real hero is Federal Mediator Wayne Horvitz, who persuaded both sides to lay aside their almost pathological hostilities. Says he: "They got rid of all that nonsense in the last three days and stopped shouting...
...silly joking and sour technique with the violin have guaranteed Youngman a steady six-figure income. It makes him glad he'd never pursued a career as a concert violinist as his Russian father intended...
...Berlin Ballet company had performed Firebird and the pas de deux from Don Quixote before a packed Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, and it was time for the orchestra to take a break. Helen Hagnes, 30, an attractive, blond, Canadian-born violinist told a friend that she was going to see Valery Panov, the Soviet-born choreographer and principal dancer for the Berlin Ballet, to ask him to pose for her sculptor husband, Janis Mintiks...