Word: knightly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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When Hank Knight first persuaded Ravinia's reluctant executive committee to add a seventh week to the six-week season, they dubiously called it "crème de la crème." The first concert, with the Pro Arte Quartet, drew only 559 fans, but even that was 200 more than they expected. Since then things have picked up. His biggest triumph came last year when he got Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Violinist Jascha Heifetz and Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky to play together, and packed Ravinia with a record-breaking 10,000 fans (TIME...
This season, Knight roped in another star-studded cast for 1950's "seventh week." And he was even getting in a little second fiddling of his own. While his family sprawled on the living-room rug, he clamped a Stradivarius under his chin, launched into a Mozart quartet with three members of the famed Paganini Quartet. Grinned little First Violinist Henry Temianka: "He didn't get lost once." Said Second Fiddler Knight: "I only play with good musicians. Two punks would ruin the music...
...Paganini players were only part of his cast. Last week thousands of Ravinia fans, sitting on blankets on the dimly floodlit grass, listened to Soprano Lotte Lehmann, whose lieder voice, beamed Knight, "is as near to chamber music as you can get-intimate, romantic." And they heard Chilean Pianist Claudio Arrau playing Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven, as a soloist and in ensemble with the Paganini...
Percival had unwittingly gone to bed between the only women correspondents then in Korea, the New York Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins and Collier's Charlotte Knight, who were getting the same treatment...