Word: fiddlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Will have nationally known violinist in guise of street fiddler lay bow to Stradivarius on Michigan Avenue in a curbstone concert citizens would pay $5-a-seat for if they knew what they were hearing. Stunt strictly on square with no packed audience. Will he stop the traffic on Michigan Avenue, musical centre of Midwest...
Editor Straus persuaded Violinist Jacques Gordon ($1,000 per concert) of the Chicago Symphony to make the experiment. In smoked glasses, matted grey wig. tattered frock coat, Fiddler Gordon posted himself at a busy Michigan Avenue corner, fiddled for 30 minutes on his $40,000 Stradivarius. Pennies, nickels, dimes from passersby totalled...
...them, heaved sighs of relief last week. The winter's heavy symphonic season was over. "Pop" (popular) concerts had begun and they were concerts faithful to their name once more. For a new conductor was at the helm ? handsome Arthur Fiedler, a native Bostonian, son of a Symphony fiddler, who last year scored a success at the outdoor concerts on the Charles River Basin Esplanade (TIME, July 29). Young Fiedler knows better than his predecessor, Alfredo Casella, what Bostonians want. He would give them, he had promised, no second session of unmixed serious fare. There would be generous quantities...
Your "taste test" suggested by Subscriber Lyman Richards of Boston reminds me of a sworn-to-be-true story heard recently at dinner. It does not concern Fiddler Kreisler, nor a Blind sign and cup hung on any famed musician. But it is a thrust, I think, against Mr. Richards' complaint of a widespread musical hypocrisy and his statement that people "impressed by the eminence of artists claim to appreciate what they neither enjoy nor understand...
What says Fiddler Kreisler, or any other artist of rank...