The following item or items
are from the Estate of Eudice Shapiro.
Eudice Shapiro was
the world's most famous woman violinist
TV TRAY
BY
JAY RIVKIN
JAY AND EUDICE WERE BEST BUDDIES.
JAY ALSO WAS A GOOD FRIEND OF THE FAMILY.
THIS TRAY WAS MADE FOR EUDICE
IT'S ONE OF A FEW DIFFERENT ONES WE HAVE.
Jay Rivkin's
assemblages
echo the surrealist collage movement brought to New York from Europe
in the1940's. Rivkin initially worked in pencil drawings,
combining them with collage and acrylic and eventually focusing on
collage and assemblage work. Through the juxtaposition of
disparate elements, she brings pencil drawings together with newspaper
clippings, boxes, dollar bills, flags and military badges, combining
her aesthetic strengths and sure structuring of form.
Rivkin's commentary on American culture and values is often
unflattering but intriguing in it's honesty. Her witty imagery
allows for the insertion of serious political issues, the addressing
of our worst fears- recycling, social issues and the part that
economics play in daily life in addition to her personal experience.
Her assemblages compel the viewer to ponder such issues as the inanity
of war, the plight of the homeless and the waning of the dollar's
value abroad. She also addresses the role of art and artists in a
society geared toward conquest and profit. Jay Rivkin unveils
the truths she has arrived at, inviting us to question our assemblage
of ideas and convictions.
She is the author of numerous books and a major contributor to
California modernism.
Jay Rivkin passed on in September of 2006 at the age of 90.
Shapiro was born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1914. She began studying violin with her father when she was 5, won her first prize when she was 10 and began her solo career with the Buffalo Philharmonic when she was 12.
She studied with Gustave Tinlot at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., and with Efrem Zimbalist at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
She moved to Los Angeles in 1941 to begin a 23-year career playing in Hollywood studios for Paramount, United Artists and RKO. She was the first female concertmaster in any studio orchestra, beginning at RKO, and by March 1943 was concurrently con- certmaster at Paramount.
She also began playing for the adventurous Evenings on the Roof series, the predecessor of the Monday Evening Concert series, in 1943 as a member of the newly formed American Art Quartet, which included violinist Robert Sushel, violist Virginia Majewski and Shapiro's first husband, cellist Victor Gottlieb, who died in 1963. On both series and at the Ojai Music Festival, she premiered works by Aaron Copland, Ingolf Dahl, Lou Harrison, Darius Milhaud and Igor Stravinsky, who became a friend until his death in 1971.
Shapiro appeared as a soloist under conductors Eugene Goossens, Fritz Reiner and William Steinberg and played in chamber ensembles that included Artur Schnabel, Bruno Walter, Lili Kraus, Rudolf Firkusny and Milhaud.
Her USC colleagues included cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, violist William Primrose and violinists Jascha Heifetz and Midori Goto. She also taught for 17 years at summer music festivals in Aspen, Colo.; Flagstaff, Ariz.; and Manchester, Vt.
Shapiro recorded for Columbia Masterworks, Crystal Records, Vanguard and New World. In November, Crystal Records reissued her recording of works by Stravinsky and Lukas Foss with the American Art Quartet and pianist Brooks Smith.
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LINKS
http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/14270.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwsGpbmHEF4