Word: violinistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JASCHA HEIFETZ: THE DECCA MASTERS, VOL. 2 (MCA Classics). Jascha plays Gershwin! And Stephen Foster! And Irving Berlin! The greatest violinist who ever lived, in dazzling arrangements of It Ain't Necessarily So, Old Folks at Home and White Christmas, among other American bonbons. Those were the days...
...father in some way." He is forming a twelve-person vocal ensemble he calls Voicestra "to sing and represent me so my music can work while I stay at home." Then there's Scrabble. And Hermann Hesse too. "There's a wonderful Hesse story," McFerrin says, "about a violinist who wishes to be the best in the world. His wish is granted, and as he's playing, he slowly disappears into the music. That's the hope of every artist. It's certainly mine." Fine, Bobby. Just don't slip away too soon...
...Saturday, April 9, Rachlevsky led the New American Chamber Orchestra as it played its final concert. Rachlevsky had established his beloved chamber group as a part-time orchestra in 1978 after stints with the Moscow and Israel chamber orchestras. For Misha Rachlevsky the violinist (even while he was a violinist for the Detroit Symphony), creating his own chamber orchestra was a chance to become Misha Rachlevsky the impresario...
...Rachlevsky has put his heart and soul and lifeblood in this to make it go," says Madeleine Phillips of Grosse Pointe Farms, who has attended the concerts for seven years. "He's the artistic director, the manager of the outfit, the principal violinist. He did it all -- legwork to advertising. He almost cloned himself...
Katharine Dickson is the daughter of Harry Ellis Dickson, a former violinist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the retired associate director of the Boston Pops. Her home was a lively one, with musicians and artists as frequent guests. At an early age she took up modern dance, and later became a teacher of it. Her nickname comes from her mother's friend, the vivacious actress Kitty Carlisle Hart...