Word: jacobsen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find" of the Garretts is this group though they have been playing engagements in the modernistic little-theatre at Evergreen, the Garretts' Baltimore home, for three summers. They were well established, widely praised before the Garretts first engaged them. In Petrograd Sascha Jacobsen, leader and first violinist, at the age of eight had already attracted much noteworthy attention with his remarkable playing and was preparing zealously for a coveted position in the violin class of great and far-famed Violinist Leopold Auer...
...Jacobsen's three comrades?Marie Roemaet-Rosanoff, violoncello; Paul Bernard, second violin; Louis Kaufman, viola?are of U. S. birth. Critics agree that each is a virtuoso in his own right. The Quartet's origin was as casual as its playing has been brilliant. The four friends, students in the Institute of Musical Art at Manhattan, had long been wont to meet of an afternoon or evening and beguile the hours with music for their own entertainment. Often they played at the home of Efrem Zimbalist and his wife Alma Gluck, or for Jascha Heifetz. Sometimes, with one of these...
Whiting will be assisted by a musical art quartet composed of Sascha Jacobsen, first violin; Paul Bernard, second violin; Louis Kaufman, viola; and Marie Roemaet-Rosanoff, violoncello...