Word: violinists
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...than 10 words: Kathleen Battle and ((another famous musician)) perform ((mainstream repertory)). Thus last year Battle teamed up with soprano Jessye Norman in a program of spirituals on Deutsche Grammophon that is still going strong as a crossover best seller. In January Battle released an all-Bach album with + violinist Itzhak Perlman, also on DG; it remains near the top of the classical charts. Now, in the new pairing with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, she has another best seller...
Former Harvard President Derek C. Bok, violinist Isaac stern and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John H. Updike '54 will receive honorary degrees at Commencement today...
...Stern became the first American toperform in the Soviet Union after World War II.The violinist has made over 100 records, receivednumerous Grammy awards, and is an originatingmember of the National Endowment for the Arts...
...this century. She was born bourgeois in Berlin, avatar of some of the best in modern art and much of the worst in modern politics. Her father died when she was a child, her stepfather was killed in World War I, and her hopes for a career as a violinist were ended by a hand injury. By 1929 she was making a career on the German stage and screen. It was then that another of this century's perpetual emigres, gifted, egomaniacal Josef von Sternberg, noticed the "cold disdain" with which she eyed the nonsense of a theatrical farce...
When I was in tenth grade, my pal Aubrey introduced me to the music of Camper Van Beethoven. After listening to Third Album, I was a groupie. Everything about Camper, from the violinist to the song titles and offbeat album cover, appealed to my bizarre adolescent psyche. I listened to them when I was awake; I listened to them when I was asleep; I bought their LP's their EP's, a three-inch CD single, their violinist's solo album, their collaborations with Eugene Chadbourne and all of the albums done by a spin-off group, Monks of Doom...