Word: cellistic
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...Brother Adolf Busch, violinist (citizen of Switzerland), led his Little Symphony through four of Handel's Concerti Grossi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In his orchestra: wife Frieda (clarinet), daughter Irene (violin), brother Hermann, onetime first cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic (cello...
Says he: "I have always tried not to mix art and politics." Cellist Pablo Casals, a Spanish exile, snapped: "Don't worry, within two years you'll be conducting in New York again...
...flat Major, which even the most fervent Romanticist must realize is among fervent Romanticist must realize is among Mendelssohn's lesser works. Written at an early age, (Opus 12), it could only have been picked of the Quartet because of its opportunities for technical virtuosity. In deed, Cellist Mischa Schneider, perhaps the most impressive of he four, makes the most of his opportunity. The second movement, a Canzonetta, provides him with a superlative vehicle for pizzicato and upper register proficiency. Violist Boris Kroyt gets his chance to highlight the otherwise lifeless Brahms B-flat Quartet...
...Paris last week a tribunal of musicians, including Paul Paray, conductor of the Paris Colonne Symphony, Violinist Jacques Thibaud and famed Catalan Cellist Pablo Casals, got set to try French musicians who danced to the Nazis' tune...
Over the years, Ben Stad's musical prejudices have hardened. When it was once suggested that son Maurice might study the saxophone, Ben said firmly: "I don't want to hear one note of it." Son Maurice grew up to be a cellist. Last week's performers included Mrs. Stad, Daughter Julea Stad Chapline and Son Maurice Ben Stad (in Navy uniform...