Last of the Wallensteins

Three hundred years ago Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein made a big name for his fighting in the Thirty Years' War (later immortalized by Poet Johann Friedrich von Schiller). Not many years ago in Chicago, Wallenstein's fifth-grandnephew, Alfred, last in the male line of Wallensteins, went shopping with his father to buy a bicycle. It had been offered as a reward for the attainment of certain grades in school. The grades were easily earned but the right bicycle was hard to find. Father & son passed a music store with a shiny 'cello in the window. How would that do instead of a bicycle? The boy's legs were tired.

He took the 'cello.

When Alfred Wallenstein was 15 he played his 'cello for Dancer Anna Pavlowa, then for the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, last year for the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. One wet night (bad for strings) in Manhattan last week he gave his first solo concert--a memorable success.

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