Word: cellistic
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Like most string quartets, the Paganini has a liberal patron. She is Mrs. William Andrews Clark, widow of the copper-millionaire Senator from Montana. First she engaged Scottish-born Violinist Henri Temianka and Belgian Cellist Robert Maas, then she sent to Brussels for Violist Robert Courte and Violinist Gustave Rosseels. She bought the four Stradivarii, which are insured for $250,000, from a New York dealer. Patroness Clark's quartet has already signed for a Beethoven series at the Library of Congress, and for the opening November concert in Manhattan...
...Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, Dr. Koussevitzky...
...Angeles concert this week, Cellist Stephen De'ak pulled his bow lightly across a queer contraption shaped somewhat like a pneumatic drill. With no effort he produced tones large enough to fill the hall...
...Where Shall I Fly?; two lieder and a rhythmic Hall Johnson spiritual. Her singing brought the house down. After the concert, Koussevitzky led her to the foyer, where the ladies of the audience were drinking tea, nibbling tiny sandwiches and acclaiming her. Said Koussevitzky, who used to be a cellist: "Always I try to make the cello play like the human voice and now . . . her voice is like a cello. . . . Such musicality! Such diction! Never have I heard something like this. [Also], she is beautifully constructed...
...evening's festivities starred the playing of Gregor Piatigorsky, 'cellist extraordinary, in the Dukelsky Concerto in C. This work was performed for the first time and, like all new pieces not positively bad, is impossible to judge upon one hearing. Just how it would sound in less competent hands is conjecture; but Saturday night it produced some of the finest musical entertainment of any completely new work in Symphony Hall this year...