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...Glee Club's program will include: two Italian folk songs; a French selection, "Les Anges"; a chorus from "Orpheus" by Gluck; "Tutti Venite Amati"; choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patienco"; "Glorious Apollo"; and "O Domine Jesu Christi" by Joachim Des Pres...
Though musically the violin is by all odds the most important stringed instrument, there have been no Steinways of the fiddle trade since Stradivarius and Amati. Of course, the reason is that a good violin never wears, out. Improving with age, they are traded like works of art. What few fine U. S. violins are made today are the product of independent craftsmen like Manhattan's Paulus Pilat, who turns out ten instruments per year at $500 to $750 each...
...Later in the week, the White House had a musicale all its own- 17th and 18th Century chamber music played from original manuscript on 16 Stradivari, Montagnana, Guadanini and Amati instruments from the Ronald Wanamaker collection, under the direction of Dr. Thaddeus Rich. When he heard that Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh was nearing Mexico City (see p. 28), President Coolidge took-pen-in-hand and signed an act of Congress conferring the Congressional Medal on Col. Lindbergh. A little while later, while the President was sitting to Mrs. Elizabeth Stevenson Wright of Cleveland for his portrait, the daughter of another...