Word: violins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House nursery. The Adzhubeis also took a meal with the Bobby Kennedys, about to leave on a world tour, and with the Salingers. Later, Salinger took them on a boat trip down the Potomac; Salinger's son Stephen, 9, played The Star-Spangled Banner on his violin as the boat passed the George Washington mansion at Mount Vernon...
...finally withdrew from the concert stage. Kreisler was not only the greatest violinist of his generation, but also the last of a once common breed: his death last week, of a heart attack, just four days before his 87th birthday, marked the end of the long succession of violin virtuosos who were gifted enough to write for the instrument they played...
...composer, Kreisler suffered a congenital Viennese weakness-a taste for melodious schmalz. But his most popular works-Liebesleid, Liebesfreud, Caprice Viennois, La Gitana, Schön Rosmarin-have grace as well as sentiment. They are so well tailored to the violin that they are almost certain to survive as favorite encore pieces. "His arrangements brought out things for the violin we never dreamed of," says Violinist Nathan Milstein. "The violin was advanced by three persons-Bach, Paganini and Kreisler...
Mortal Fiddler. The advance began on a violin fashioned out of an old cigar box and played by Kreisler when he was four. Son of a Viennese doctor, young Fritz entered the Vienna Conservatory at seven, the youngest child ever admitted. His career was interrupted by World War I, in which he was badly wounded while serving in the Austrian army, and again by the anti-German sentiment of wartime U.S. audiences. In 1941, he was struck by a truck in Manhattan. He recovered after days in a coma, but for a time forgot all modern languages and could speak...
...hands, the guitar becomes an organ with a hundred stops--but infinitely more expressive. At one point it sounds like a harpsichord; at another, like a carillon, or like a piano. In melodic passages Diaz's shifts were so smooth and his vibrato so intense that the tone was violin-like. During a Villa-Lobos dance his forceful, resonant bass had a brass quality. Such versatility would in itself distinguish his playing; the remarkable thing is that Mr. Diaz is able to shift moods instantaneously, and sustain two different timbres simultaneously...