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...voyage in the Pacific--McGrath buzzes up and down the Jarrett's ladders like a streamlined torpedo. She barks orders on the bridge, offers praise to sailors in the lower decks and sometimes snatches a few minutes alone in her stateroom to practice Haydn's Military Symphony on the violin. Her days often begin before 6 a.m. and stretch until "mid-rats"--midnight rations--are served to sailors standing night watch...
Weinstein was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on February 26, 1908. He paid his way through school playing the jazz violin...
...work-study program. Playing on platforms since last September, Jones can make about $25 per hour on a good day. Groceries, laundry, fixing his bow and a plane ticket to Kansas City to see his honey all serve as motivation to collect coins and bills in his carpeted violin case; he has also received action figures, valentines, cigarettes and even pick up lines from drag queens. Aside from supporting his college lifestyle, Jones says he enjoys "making friends with some of the homeless" and the "great amount of enjoyment" he receives from entertaining passers...
...Jackson '03, also knows the musical offerings of Harvard well. Apart from singing and arranging for the Callbacks, Jackson fils also plays the violin for the Baroque Chamber Orchestra. He loves the fact that he performs with two very different groups with music from two very different centuries. Likewise, Ben's musical background is quite diverse. He began playing the piano at five and within a few years picked up the violin. The Jacksons lived in Britain for several years and in elementary school, Ben sang with the boys choir at his school. Moving to Dayton, Ohio...
...pudgy first child of a bourgeois Jewish couple from southern Germany, he was strongly influenced by his domineering, musically inclined mother, who encouraged his passion for the violin and such classical composers as Bach, Mozart and Schubert. In his preteens he had a brief, intense religious experience, going so far as to chide his assimilated family for eating pork. But this fervor burned itself out, replaced, after he began exploring introductory science texts and his "holy" little geometry book, by a lifelong suspicion of all authority...