Irma Neumann

Even if you sit through the end credits of a movie, watching the crawl that lists all the little people who belong to unions requiring that their contributions be acknowledged, you're still not seeing the names of a host of anonymous laborers in the filmmaking process. If a picture has a big symphonic score, the credits may be missing as many as a hundred musicians. Violinist Irma Neumann, a white-haired, jolly-looking woman who will be 88 on her next birthday, is one such player.

Even if you sit through the end credits of a movie, watching the crawl that lists all the little people who belong to unions requiring that their contributions be acknowledged, you're still not seeing the names of a host of anonymous laborers in the filmmaking process. If a picture has a big symphonic score, the credits may be missing as many as a hundred musicians. Violinist Irma Neumann, a white-haired, jolly-looking woman who will be 88 on her next birthday, is one such player.