Word: cello
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Krakauer Bros. The Wurlitzer, which will sell for less than $1,000, has two keyboards, one for piano strings, the other for any one of twelve electrically produced tones-tuba, cello, violin, flute...
...forthright, plainspoken, sharp-eyed teacher who preferred playing the cello to painting, warned his students that he could read their thoughts from the colors they used. His method was to place a model on the beach, so that the brilliant background of sky and water forced students to see the head merely as a spot of color. He then gave students a big, broad-edged putty knife and a square of building board, and urged them to study color rather than drawing. "Painting is just getting one spot of color in relation to another spot of color," he would...
...Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis. Felix Frankfurter and others founded in 1917, to represent Jews "as a group and not solely as individuals." The Congress is ardently Zionist, zealous in promoting the anti-German boycott and getting up mass protests against Hitler. Last week, Rabbi Wise's deep cello voice was throbbing, his Mosaic profile bobbing, as he stumped in favor of a referendum for a united front for U. S. Jewry. Said he in Cleveland...
BEETHOVEN : TRIPLE CONCERTO IN C MAJOR FOR VIOLIN, CELLO, PIANO & ORCHESTRA (Vienna Philharmonic, Felix Weingartner conducting, with Richard Odnoposoff, Stefan Auber and Angelica Morales; Columbia: 9 sides). Second-rate Beethoven, with only fair-to-middling performance from the soloists. But the recording of this rarely performed piece will interest Beethoven enthusiasts...
...teaches some of them how to play the fiddle. Not all are children; mothers and fathers come for lessons too. The school's youngest pupil is three, its oldest 49. Fees for lessons range from 50? to $2. Children under ten pay $1 for a piano, violin or cello lesson, and a class in musical theory is thrown in for nothing. Adults pay $2. Actually these fees cover only one-third the cost of the lessons. Another third comes from the school's endowment fund; a final third is raised by public subscription. For specially talented pupils free...