Word: kolisch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coolidge began a series of chamber music festivals in her newly finished Music Temple on South Mountain, near Pittsfield. To them she brought the most capable and renowned musicians in the world. The names of Hugo Kortschak, Willem Willeke, Jacques Gordon, Rudolf Kolisch, William Kroll, Albert Spalding, Myra Hess, and hosts of others appear on these programs. In these years she organized the Berkshire Quartet, the Coolidge Quartet, and the Elshuco Trio. She inaugurated in 1921 the Coolidge Prize for chamber music compositions and began commissioning works by contemporary composers. The list of those she has helped in this...
...wealthy Chicago grocer and widow of a distinguished Chicago surgeon, Mrs. Coolidge* is something of an amateur of music herself. She has played the piano in informal recitals with violinists like Kneisel and Zimbalist. Five years ago, at 79, she amazed her friends by sitting in with the Kolisch Quartet at the Library of Congress, to play Schumann's Quintet for Piano and Strings. Last year one of her own trios, written in 1930, was performed at the Library...
...Budapest Quartet holds its rank today in probably the most competitive field in quartet history.* Runners-up include the Busch Quartet, the Lener, the Curtis, the Gordon, the Coolidge, the Pro Arte, the Kolisch, the Roth and the Perol...