Editing Adolph Baller (section)

==Career==
While Baller worked as a pianist for the [[WQXR-FM|WQXR]] radio station in [[New York City]], he met violinist [[Yehudi Menuhin]] and cellist [[Gabor Rejto]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/28/obituaries/adolph-baller-pianist.html|title=Adolph Baller; Pianist|date=28 January 1994|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-01-29|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Beginning in 1941, the Ballers lived with their daughter, Nina, at Menuhin's Alma Estate in [[Los Gatos]], [[California]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.stanford.edu/pr/97/971105baller.html|title=Piano recital by Adolph Baller students scheduled for Nov. 12|last=Manuel|first=Diane|date=5 November 1997|work=Stanford University News Service|access-date=29 January 2019|archive-date=20 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211120041138/https://news.stanford.edu/pr/97/971105baller.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

For several years Baller accompanied Menuhin in performances throughout the world and performed in chamber concerts, being particularly active during World War II with performances for troops deployed overseas.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1AQFAAAAMAAJ|title=Unfinished Journey|last=Menuhin|first=Yehudi|publisher=Knopf|year=1977|isbn=9780394410517|pages=154|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ram.ac.uk/museum/item/24606|title=Portrait of Yehudi Menuhin with pianist Adolph Baller, performing in the Aleutian Islands, 1944. Black and white photograph. - Royal Academy of Music|website=www.ram.ac.uk|access-date=2019-01-29|archive-date=2019-10-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023142513/https://www.ram.ac.uk/museum/item/24606|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Under [[Yehudi Menuhin]]'s patronage, Baller, [[Gabor Rejto]] and [[Roman Totenberg]] formed the [[Alma Trio]] in 1942–1943 at Menuhin's Alma estate in [[Los Gatos]], [[California]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XUVEa8_EdV4C&q=Adolph+Baller+fund&pg=PT160|title=Note-Perfect: Thirty Years in Classical Music Recordings|last=Cornfield|first=Giveon|date=2013-01-18|publisher=Xlibris Corporation|isbn=9781479777983|language=en}}</ref> Violinist [[Maurice Wilk]] joined the Alma Trio after Totenberg retired. Following Wilk's sudden death in 1963, violinist [[Andor Toth]] joined the Alma Trio and remained their violinist for the next 15 years, before the trio wound down their touring in the mid-1980s.