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...these two aims lies the greatness of Mrs. Coolidge's life work. Under the auspices of the Foundation, the world's finest musicians have been able to present to attentive audiences music of their own choice whose special appeal would generally exclude it from the concert-manager system. Alexander Schneider's performances throughout the country, as well as at Harvard, of Bach's Six Snotaas for Unaccompanied Violin are examples of her impartial patronage. --Herbert P. Gleason
Sanctioned by the USEASA, the race will be run over a course to be determined by snow conditions. Hannes Schneider, who developed the snowpile turn, will be course setter...
Brahms: Quartet No. 3, Op. 60 (Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano; Alexander Schneider, violin; Milton Katims, viola; Frank Miller, cello; Mercury, 7 sides). Mercury could hardly have gotten together a finer ensemble (Schneider is a Budapest Quartet alumnus; Katims and Miller are both first chair men in Toscanini's NBC Symphony) to bring this grimly powerful Brahms quartet back on the record shelves. Performance and recording : excellent...
...learned most of its skiing from the disciples of Austrian Hannes Schneider. Schneider's Arlberg method teaches beginners how to brake their speed, swoosh around trees, and turn -basing all movements on the snowplow (pointing the ski tips inwards to make a V) and the stem (pushing the back part of one ski out at an angle for a turn). Allais keeps his skis always parallel, controlling his speed by sideslipping, and turning by ruade (kicking the backs of the skis up and pivoting on the tips while rotating the body in the direction of the turn...
Allais' admirers insist that his method is swifter, simpler and safer-but so far, the U.S. is a long way from accepting it. Schneider himself still teaches at the Eastern skiers' mecca, North Conway, N.H. Most U.S. Olympic stars, including Slalom Champion Gretchen Fraser, are confirmed Arlbergians. Even Sun Valley isn't committed: it is teaching both methods...