The "gypsy" chameleon

Strings | January 1, 2002| | Copyright

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In wartime Europe, violinist-composer Georges Boulanger played to survive

"TAKE HIM, OR LET HIM LIVE. I GIVE HIM TO YOU." Vassilij Pantazi Boulanger laid his fragile, seven-year-old son Georges naked on the stone floor of the church, crossed himself, and left. Two events occurred over the next 12 hours as Georges, feverish and weak, lay in the empty church: His left eardrum burst, and his fever subsided.

The year was 1900, the place Romania, and this was only the first of many survival acts performed by a boy who would became one of the most colorful violin virtuosos of the 20th ...

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