Word: violins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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William: Oh c'mon. You make it sound like we were playing the violin...
...brothers de Pasquale, the concert was the realization of an old man's dream. Papa de Pasquale, an im migrant violin teacher, had one ideal in life: to raise a professional string quartet. But in Germantown baseball was the thing, and the de Pasquale boys were forever tossing their baseball equipment out of the second-floor window and sneaking off to the diamond. On Sunday afternoons, however, they were held captive in the living room and made to listen to recordings by Kreisler and Casals. "That's what it should sound like," Papa would say, and then...
...intensive practice. Then, in 1963, William won a position with the Philadelphia and has since been named an associate concertmaster. The time had come. The following year, the two other boys packed up their fiddles and joined the Philadelphia-Joseph as principal violist, Robert as a member of the violin section-and the de Pasquale String Quartet was born...
DVORAK: CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA (Deutsche Grammophon). Filled with Slav melodies and sharp folk rhythms, Dvorak's only violin concerto is nevertheless grandly designed, and is given a spirited, full-bodied performance by Edith Peinemann, a 29-year-old German violinist with a singing tone and a dancing bow. With the Czech Philharmonic...
Rumania has been buying from a horde of hungry Westerners. The West German firm of Gutehoffnungshütte won a $20 million share in building the mammoth Galati Steel Mill at the Rumanian end of the Danube-and when the deal was consummated, at a candle-light-cum-gypsy-violin blowout in Bucharest, the Rumanian Deputy Minister for Heavy Industry, Constantin Nācutā, executed a neat hora on the tabletop. Demag and Siemens, Krupp and M.A.N. all add to a German investment in Rumania that exceeds $50 million. Italy's Orlandi is building...