Word: violins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Starker feels that "the golden age of the cello is upon us." Lacking the glamour or flashy attraction of the piano and violin, the cello has been a neglected child in the family of strings. France's Jean Louis Duport revolutionized playing techniques in the late 1700s, an achievement that prompted Voltaire to exclaim: "A miracle! An ox has been changed into a nightingale...
...romantic composers. Starker, a professor of music at Indiana University since 1958, takes heart from the wealth of cello compositions being turned out by modern composers. But he admits that the instrument's sober reputation might hamper its achieving the popularity of its high-strung relative, the violin...
Diana Menuhin was not exaggerating. More like an Olympic sprinter in training than a 48-year-old violin virtuoso on tour, Yehudi Menuhin stays religiously in trim with yoga and health foods. Not that he is in any danger of getting fat. The busiest, fastest-moving musician on the international festival circuit, Menuhin has performed in some 50 concerts from Tel Aviv to Glasgow this summer, has also fulfilled a dizzying round of recording, teaching and conducting engagements. The crescendo comes each year in June and August, when Menuhin presides over two top-notch festivals, at Gstaad in Switzerland, which...
...Samuel Taylor's Beekman Place, French Actor Fernand Gravet plays a violin virtuoso with a string of women (Madeleine Carroll, Arlene Francis, Melinda Dillon). Britain's Terence Stamp comes to Broadway as Alfie, a Jack-of-all-trades with Jill troubles. Onetime Moppet Margaret O'Brien will star in One in a Row, about an author who writes a bestseller and decides to quit while he is ahead. Jean Kerr, who has been far ahead since Mary, Mary, has completed Poor Richard, a play about a visiting British poet which was originally due last year...
Died. Vic Oliver, 66, British comedian and former husband (1936-45) of Winston Churchill's daughter Sarah, a music hall star who doubled up U.S. and British audiences with his hilarious piano and violin spoofs of long-haired recitals; of a heart attack; in Johannesburg, South Africa...