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Versatile violist who is as well-known for her
collaborations with Jascha Heifetz as she is for playing viola d'amour
on Bernard Herrmann scores. She
also owns the dubious distinction of having played on an album that won a
Grammy for Best Album Cover, Classical, The
Intimate Bach, in 1962. Her
recording legacy, in classical music, is as the violist on The Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts, alongside
Israel Baker, Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky, and William Primrose,
performing Mozart's String
Quintet No. 4, K. 516. This
merry band of players also recorded Mozart's Quintet in E flat major, K. 407, and, adding Gabor Rejto on
cello, Brahms' String Sextet
No. 2 in G, Op. 36. She was
also a member of the American Art Quartet, who covered Lukas Foss's String Quartet No. 1. Her playing so impressed Bernard
Herrmann that he featured her on viola d'amour on the film On Dangerous Ground and The Twilight Zone episode "Little
Girl Lost". Her other
film credits include An American in
Paris, The Amityville Horror (1979), Ben-Hur, Brubaker, Charade, The Color Purple, and Nunzio. She also performed on the soundtrack
of the television program Honey West. All of this activity has not
precluded her from working with an all-star cavalcade of artists and groups
that includes Peter Allen, Chet Atkins, Count Basie, Rosemary Clooney, Nat
King Cole, Bing Crosby, Bobby Darin, Doris Day, Earth, Wind & Fire,
Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Benny Goodman, Julio Iglesias, Quincy Jones,
Peggy Lee, Melissa Manchester, Dean Martin, Johnny Mathis, Lionel Richie,
Doc Severinsen, Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme, The Tubes, Deniece Williams,
Nancy Wilson, and Sheb Wooley.
A Viola Scholarship bears her name at the Eastman School of Music at
the University of Rochester in New York.
Lalo
Schifrin recordings
Love Rhapsody
from "The Concorde - Airport '79" (Lalo
Schifrin)
Theme from "The
Concorde - Airport '79" (Lalo Schifrin)
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