Word: cellos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...viola is in nature an undersized pansy. In art it is an oversized violin with a tubby, whiskey-contralto voice. Except for low-moaning the inner voices of symphonies and string quartets, it is not good for much. Most of the time it merely plays pah to the cello's oom. Most of the people who pull horsehair bows over its goatgut strings are ex-violinists who failed to make the grade...
...members of the famous quarter are: Wolfe Wolfinsohn, first violin: Bernard Robbins, second violin; Marcel Dick, viola; and Iwan d'Archambean, cello...
Mozart: Trios in E Major and C Major (Kurt Appelbaum, piano, Roman Totenberg, violin, Fritz Magg, cello; Musicraft 8 sides). Both first recordings, limpidly played; the second, one of Mozart's finest...
Aurelio Giorni: Trio in C Major (Max Hollaender, violin, Sterling Hunkins, cello, Eugene Kusmiak, piano; Musicraft: 7 sides). Interesting contrapuntal work by an Italian-American "musician's musician" who died at 43 in the New England hurricane last autumn...
...Harvard Music Club program tomorrow evening at Paine Hall is also devoted entirely to chamber music. This program comes closer to home chronologically, for, although it opens with the Beethoven "B-Flat Trio for Clarinet, 'Cello, and Piano" and closes with the Mozart "String Quintet" (two violas), the rest of the program is made up of modern works: "Choros II for Flute and Clarinet" by Villa-Lobos, a short rhythmical piece of great difficulty; "Three Counterpoints" by Honegger, which are gay pieces in spite of their academic form; and the second performance of Piston's "Sonata for Violin and Piano...