Word: fiddlers
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...honor of genial, grizzled Viennese Fritz Kreisler, The Bohemians, some 1,000 classical musicians, sat down to dinner at Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, put on a glittering musical evening, topped it off by confronting Fiddler Kreisler with Fiddler Albert Spalding decked out in mustache and grey bangs, looking wonderfully like the guest of the evening, and sawing at one of his tunes with confusingly Kreislerian dexterity...
...gags, got such a hand that he resolved to become a monologuist. During his hitch in the Navy, Benny went under his real name, Benjamin Kubelsky. After the war he changed to Ben K. Benny, adopted his present name when people began to confuse Ben K. Benny with a fiddler named Ben Bernie. During the '20s Benny went onward & upward without much fuss or muss. He drifted into radio...
Most violinists were content to let him keep his unplayable piece to himself. Not so Louis Krasner. This bald, soft-spoken Boston fiddler had already won sympathetic cheers for fighting his way through a similarly cacophonous, crossword concerto by Schönberg's pupil, Alban Berg. Stung by this new challenge, Krasner sent for Schönberg's piece and started in on it. For thankless months he sawed, plucked and stabbed away at its impossible chords and tuneless, jittery rhythms. "It was six months." said he, "before I began to understand...
...Francis, whose music by Paul Hindemith is among the best in the modern theatre, has slipped from the repertory; Sol Hurok does not like it. Among the new ballets now presented by the two companies, the best has to do with a man who died a century ago, Fiddler Paganini...
...Labor Day. The alternative: they would be barred from radio and recording. The catch: once in A. F. of M. they would be forbidden to play as soloists with the Boston Symphony. Asked Mr. Petrillo: "Since when is there any difference between Heifetz playing a fiddle and the fiddler in a tavern? They're both musicians...