I think I spied a violinist padding about under strobe lighting through a gap in a door to an otherwise empty room.
This year John Jacobsen, a Seattle director and screenwriter, created "The Artist Toolbox," a 13-part series of interviews with artists — a category that includes the chef Daniel Boulud, the abstract painter Sam Gilliam and the German violinist David Garrett — about their creative processes, partly to fill what Mr. Jacobsen sees as a void on PBS.
MUSIC: PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT -- A 16-year-old violinist who practices for about seven hours a day has won the BBC's 26th Musician of the Year competition.
As the orchestra's self-description, "chamber philharmonic," suggests, it's a small ensemble — only eighteen violinists, and about fifty-five musiniall in all.
The festivities began with dinner in an Algerian bistro, continued in a dance hall "lit with pink and blue neon lights," and then, at Koestler's insistence, progressed to Schéhérazade, a nightclub filled with "violinists wandering about playing soulful Russian music into the guests' ears".
She read for a couple of hours, then called her boyfriend (also a violinist) to complain about her plight.
The studio wanted a kid violinist and actor, about 13 or 14, to play Heifetz's son in a film starring Heifetz.
SUNDAY REVIEW A letter in the Sunday Dialogue last week, one of several responses to a violinist's fears about the decline in the audience for classical music, misspelled the surname of a celebrated pianist.
That's how violinist Karen Gomyo feels about the works of Mozart, and she'll be performing the famed composer's Violin Concerto No. 5 with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for three performances on March 27 through March 29 at the Orchestra Hall in Detroit.
I am honored (honoured, actually), if somewhat baffled, that people would turn to a violinist for answers about things that can be answered so quickly, and undoubtedly authoritatively, by Wikipedia.
