Word: bows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Violinist Virovai made his first bow to a U. S. audience. Few of the Philharmonic-Symphony concertgoers in Manhattan's weather-beaten Carnegie Hall had ever heard of him. But before he was even half way through Vieuxtemps' rhetorical D Minor Concerto, the Philharmonic's audience was shouting and stamping fit to bust the buttons off its stuffed shirts. When it was over, self-possessed little Violinist Virovai was given a terrific hand. Critics straightway placed him in the front rank of present-day fiddlers, acclaimed his appearance as one of the most exciting debuts...
Stripped of their grey fiannel pants (which were replaced by ones which matched their coats), their dirty shoes, and their bow ties, which were both also replaced with a view to obscuring any identification with their Alma Mater, eight Seniors joined local Republican Vote-chasers Tuesday afternoon by volunteering to resurrect countless sequestered but registered as Republicans by some all-pervading act of Providence or the Republican City Committee and drive them to the polls...
While these are drastic measures, they are even more necessary. They will be met by determined opposition on the part of workers and owners, but the interests of both must bow to the public interest which is here paramount. The railroads' cry for "immediate financial relief" constitutes a crisis; and this can be met satisfactorily only by a conference of the three parties concerned--government (representing the people), employers, and employees--from which will emerge a plan which at least approximates these most desirable measures...
Last fortnight Hyam Greenbaum, Musical Director of London's British Broadcasting Corporation's Television Orchestra, was acquitted at Bow Street Police Court on a charge of having stolen two books from Charing Cross bookshops. First steal: "Days of Hope'' (price 6/6); second steal: a book on Leonardo da Vinci (price 8/6). Witnesses supporting Conductor Greenbaum came near constituting a Who's Who of London's musical world...
Last week the New Friends' new orchestra and new conductor made their opening bow to Manhattan audiences. The new orchestra was notable for its youth (85% of its players are under 25) and for its five women instrumentalists. A packed house attended the opening, found the youthful orchestra well-stocked, found Conductor Stiedry something to shout about...