Word: guarnerius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...named Dorotha Powers, who quit concert playing in 1937 when she married a wealthy businessman, now wants to make a comeback at 30. Kreisler had hardly ever played the Earl Strad in concerts ; he found it did not suit his leisurely fiddling style as well as one made by Guarnerius, a Stradivarius contemporary...
...world's great-statesmen, bankers, diplomats, composers, actors, writers, scientists. Hordes of correspondents from every corner of the world ask him for advice, money, help in scientific problems and personal affairs. He is deluged with gifts, which he almost invariably sends back; he once refused a $30,000 Guarnerius violin...
...concert tour, recalled playing for an hour in his undershirt in broiling Trinidad, mastering some short-haired music for a concert at the Army base in San Juan. The shorthair number was St. Louis Blues. "I practiced and I got pretty good," he said. He played it on his Guarnerius instead of the Strad, because the former "had a more earthy, a more contralto quality...
Soon Finland was at war. Back in Viipuri, Violinist Haitto was walking to school one day when he heard an air-raid alarm. He rushed home, grabbed what he thought was his Guarnerius, headed for shelter. When the raid was over, the Sirpo home and the Conservatory were wrecked, and Heimo Haitto discovered that, in his excitement, he had saved a cheap violin. The Sirpos and their foster child headed for Sweden and Norway, where Heimo fiddled at benefit concerts for the Finnish Red Cross. Then they sailed for the U. S., where they arrived last February...
Playing on a borrowed Guarnerius at small concerts, Violinist Haitto has raised some $12,000 for the Finnish Relief Fund, has engagements through mid-May. He has learned some English, likes U. S. oranges, Mickey Rooney, skating in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center rink...