Word: violin
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...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...
Less praise can be given the first half of the program which matched Handel's Concerto Grosso, Opus 3, No. 1 with Mozart's Violin Concerto no. 3, K. 216. The soloist for the Mozart piece was Lawrence Franko who regularly serves as the HRO's concertmaster...
...three Davids have had sound training (Millar at Berkeley, Stanger at the New England Conservatory, Shapira at Juilliard), and in 1951 Conductor Millar even founded his own orchestra, the San Francisco Little Symphony, while appearing in nightclubs on the side. He was first violin with the Vancouver Symphony in 1945 when Bernstein made a guest appearance with the orchestra, advised him to make conducting his career. How did Bernstein know he was any good? Said Lenny as he returned to his orchestra last week: "You can smell a conductor...