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...Flonzaley Quartet was disbanded...
...Manhattan brokerage house of De Coppet & Doremus, decided to subsidize a group of four players who would make quartet playing their exclusive and full-time occupation. De Coppet, a fanatical music lover, gathered his quartet to practice in peace on his Swiss estate which he called Villa Flonzaley, after a small brook that flowed through the grounds. When they came out of hiding as the Flonzaley Quartet, the musical world soon found their playing amazing...
...Coppet's Flonzaley Quartet was, in a sense, the first strictly professional chamber music team, wholly concentrated on the intricate music that the greatest composers in history had written for just four strands of tone. Today quartet playing has become so distinct a profession that no one but a specialist with years of experience would think of competing for big-league honors. Few quartet players ever even attempt to excel as soloists, and very few of the world's top-rank soloists make good quartet players...
...with the firm 23 years, twelve as a general partner. Before that he was an engineer until his cousin, the late Edward J. deCop-pet, offered him a job in his brokerage house. Love of music had made the cousins close friends. Mr. deCoppet in 1903 had organized the Flonzaley Quartet; Mr. Stebbins' grandfather, onetime president of the Stock Exchange, had been board chairman of the old Academy of Music. With this tradition and plenty of money made in Wall Street, Broker Stebbins invaded Broadway under the name of Laurence Rivers, a character from his favorite book, Malet...
...Institute was founded in 1924 by Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok. Other department heads at Curtis: oldtime Soprano Marcella Sembrich (ill last year, she was replaced by Soprano Queena Mario) and Baritone Emilio de Gogorza; Violinist Efrem Zimbalist; Cellist Felix Salmond; Viola Player Louis Bailly, onetime member of the Flonzaley Quartet (chamber music department...