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...program is as follows: Quartet in G Major, Opus 77, No. 1 Haydn First Movement, Quartet G Minor DeBussy Quintet in B Minor for Clarinet and Strings Brahms The personnel of the quintet is as follows: M. H. Holmes '28 First Violin Harold Schmidt '32 Second Violin James Ulmer Viola A. O. Allen 2G Cello T. F. Parshley '35 Clarinet...
...spite of his inexperience, Berlioz developed theories of his own. He wrote scores which called for an incredible number of players. He combined instruments in ways that had never been done before. He even endorsed the mongrel saxophone which the instrument-maker, Adolphe Sax, had introduced into the clarinet family. An Irish actress. Harriet Smithson, came to Paris and Berlioz was fairly beside himself. After staging a suicide in her presence he persuaded her to marry him but the romance ended there. Marie Recio, a mediocre singer, accompanied him on his tour through Europe. She often spoiled his music...
...complete program for tonight's concert follows: Concerto Grosso No. 8 Corelli Concerto in E major for Violin Bach Soloist, M. H. Holmes 3G. "A Hunter Riding Through the Green Woods" Hindemith For strings and flute, oboe, clarinet Concerto in D minor for Harpsichord Bach...
There are places in the banjo club for those who play chord and tenor banjos, trumpets, saxophones, clarinets, drums, piano, trombones, flutes and basses. The mandolin club includes mandolin, mandola, mandocellos, guitars, flutes, clarinet, clarinet, violin, 'cello, basses; in the vocal club there are first and second tenors, baritones, and basses. Also any specialists at solos on instruments or singing, clog dancing, sleight of hand or ventriloquists will find an opportunity to show their acts...
Since 1859 the French standard for A (pitch used for orchestra tuning, traditionally given by the oboe or clarinet) has been a tuning fork scaled to, vibrate 870.9 times per sec. at a temperature of 15° Centigrade.* Though it has never been adopted officially by international convention the French A has gradually obtained all over the world. Last fortnight Dr. Carl Maria Haselbrunner, editor of the Oesterreicliische Musikerzeitung and honorary president of the Austrian Musical Association strongly declared for such a convention. "There is a terrible chaos in tuning," said he, "a regular musical anarchy. And all because...