Word: violins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Performers still shy away from his difficult music (at least one famed violinist flatly refused to play the première of his Violin Concerto), and most audiences still listen to him with polite perplexity. But Sessions would have it no other way. "A composer," says he, "doesn't sit down at his desk and say, 'I'm going to communicate this morning...
Bernard Haitink, 31, will soon take over as one of two permanent conductors of Amsterdam's famed old Concertgebouw Orchestra. Haitink has guest-conducted widely throughout Europe, is best known for his coolly controlled readings of Beethoven and Bruckner. A childhood violin student at the Amsterdam Conservatory, Haitink "felt the need to have a broader instrument," studied conducting, was soon picked as assistant conductor of the Dutch Radio Philharmonic. In frequent guest stints with the Concertgebouw, Haitink has already replaced the light, silvery Eduard Van Beinum tone with a darker, deeper glow reminiscent of the way the orchestra sounded...
...Commerce, a Republican. Before Businessman Miller turned to his family enterprises, he first earned a Phi Beta Kappa key in Greek and Latin at Yale, took his master's at Oxford, served as a lieutenant in the Navy during World War II. He also learned to play the violin, manages fair Bach on his Stradivarius...
...Brian, asked if he had serious matrimonial designs on his date, drawled: "You'd better ask the princess." Soraya, once a queen but never a princess, only smiled mysteriously. When Romano Mussolini was a boy, his father, Italy's Dictator Benito Mussolini, who sawed passably on a violin, banned jazz in the country because it was "an expression of an inferior race." Romano and his older brother Vittorio soon became clandestine jazz buffs. Vittorio smuggled U.S. jazz records into the Mussolini household throughout the Fascist era, and on occasion Papa Mussolini would grudgingly admit that some...
Donald Glaser, 34, a beamingly boyish professor at the University of California, Berkeley, won the physics prize. Dr. Glaser was born in Cleveland. While in high school (he graduated at 15), he took as much interest in music as in science, and at 16 played the violin in Cleveland's Philharmonic Orchestra. When he entered Case Institute of Technology, physics finally won precedence over music...