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...talking in February, but only about a joint bid for Hughes Aircraft, which was soon to be auctioned off. After brief consideration, they decided that it would be a mistake to break up Hughes. Says Dingman: "It would make no sense. Like a symphony, if you sold off the violin section, it would not perform as well." At that point, the talks shifted to a possible Allied-Signal merger. At meetings in La Jolla, Calif., and Morristown, N.J., the deal came together...
Monday April 15: Reinhard Goebel, Baroque violin...
...play an instrument, Tsang began playing the piano when he was six. He added the cello at age seven, inspired by a concert which his schoolteacher's son gave. "I fell in love with the tone of the cello," he says, adding, "Besides that, everyone was playing the violin...
...takes the word play seriously. A coquette demands, "Why don't you say something?" Replies her lover: "Forgot my lines." A woman theorizes, "There were several Lenins. The real one was killed at the very beginning." Another abruptly decides that she is not in love, because "there was no violin...
...Morpurgo, a generous Jewish millionaire who admired and employed the errant head of their household. Mother Clare, once a celebrated pianist praised by Brahms, no longer has to cope with dunning tradespeople invading her house in a suburb of South London. Eldest Daughter Cordelia has finally given up the violin, much to the relief of her mother and siblings, who believe, as Rose, the narrator, says, that "to play an instrument badly was as shameful as any crime short of murder." Rose and her twin sister Mary practice the piano daily and dream of their futures on concert stages across...