Word: cellistic
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...Praxede Marcelline Kochanska, was plopped up on a piano bench at the age of four. At six she was studying the violin. At twelve she played at local dances in the family quartet. She was the pianist, her brother the first violinist, her mother the second, her father the cellist. When she nodded at the keyboard her father roused her with a tap on the shoulder with his cello bow. Because the family was too poor to buy their music, they borrowed it. And often after playing until midnight 12-year-old Marcelline sat up into the morning to copy...
...well back in the orchestra thought that in all his life he had never been so proud. The rich young man had commissioned the Sacred Service and to him Composer Bloch had dedicated it. He was Gerald Warburg who, when he left Harvard, chose to be a 'cellist rather than enter his father Felix's banking business (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.).* Four years ago when he organized the Stradivarius Quartet, Gerald Warburg toured with it to San Francisco. There he found Ernest Bloch teaching at the San Francisco Conservatory, chafing because he had so little time for composition. Warburg...
...Banker Felix Warburg has four sons: Frederick, a Kuhn, Loeb partner; Gerald, the 'cellist; Paul ("Piggy") who is a vice president of Bank of the Manhattan Co.; Edward, the secretary-treasurer of the new School of American Ballet. James Paul Warburg who writes popular songs with his wife, Katherine ("Kay") Swift, is a cousin, son of the late Paul Moritz Warburg. * The endowment was for $5,000 a year. During Depression it shrank...
...even at rehearsal but he could detect the tiniest flaws. Once in Milan he had smashed an offending violin and a splinter flew up, hit the player in one eye. Toscanini's fabulous memory gave him his first chance to conduct. He had studied to be a 'cellist at the Parma Conservatory. As a 'cellist he was playing in Rio de Janeiro when one night the regular conductor was unable to appear. In desperation the players remembered that Toscanini, then 19, seemed to know everything by heart. He had no dress coat. But the players hustled...
...string trio consisting of Malcolm Holmes, violinist, Augustin Allen, 'cellist; and Frank Ramseyer, pianist will play a group of selections Sunday evening, December 10, at Lowell House...