Word: cello
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a few-unimportant exceptions the big-league orchestras have kept their old lineups and star performers. Squat little Mischa Mischakoff still plays first violin for Chicago, lean young Alfred Wallenstein the 'cello for Manhattan, with Bruno Jaenicke behind him blowing himself red in the face over his French horn. Boston still has Richard Burgin playing first violin. Jean Bedetti first 'cello. In Philadelphia sleek Anton Torello still wields the big bull fiddle; Oscar Schwar, who was a drummer-boy in the Imperial German Army, still presides over the tympani...
...decided it was a mistake, offered to return it. Said the stranger: "That was no mistake." Attendants learned he was John Jacob Raskob, onetime chairman of General Motors finance committee. In the Hollywood Bowl Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty was conducting the orchestra while a young woman rehearsed a 'cello solo. When the orchestra finished playing, her father stepped up to the podium, punched Conductor Harty exclaimed : "The orchestra played so loud I couldn't hear her." At a party given by Irving Netcher, rich Chicagoan, and Roszika Dolly Netcher at Juan-les-Pins, France, a guest told Lord...
...beyond the scope of his imagination. Music. Father Brahms hoped, would earn his son a living. He was set to playing the piano almost as soon as he could toddle. Before he reached his teens he could tootle on a horn, play passably on the violin and 'cello. But to his father's despair he would go on scribbling music when he should have been practicing his scales and learning the dance tunes which would earn him a thaler or two and all the supper he could...
...program will include the following selections: "The Steaming Rill" Arensky "Must I Forever?" Arensky (acc. "cello by Yves Chardon) "The Dirge for Two Veterans" Holst (acc. by brass) "Princess Ida" Gilbert and Sullivan "Salvation Belongs to Our God" Tschesnokoff "Let Celestial Concerts All Unite" Handel "Hymn to Manas" Holst(solo--Frederick Fuller 1G) "Cavalier Song" Stanford (solo--John Stacy Colman...
...august American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Atlantic City last week Dr. William Francis Gray Swann, 48, president of the American Physical Society, director of the Franklin Institute's Bartol Research Foundation, played his 'cello. Professor Dayton Clarence Miller, 66, played several of 40 flutes he brought from the Case School of Applied Science. Professor David Eugene Smith, 72, of Columbia, mathematician, told about the Oriental books which he collects as a companion hobby to his other hobby of historical, mathematical and astronomical instruments. Dr. Clarence N. Flickman, who researches for Bell Telephone Laboratories...