Word: kreisler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...published works include The Banking System of the United States (1894), Journal of the Great War (1920), The First Year of the Budget (1922), Melody in A Major which was played by Fritz Kreisler for some time before its author was known...
...Fritz Kreisler, famed violinist: "In an interview given to a reporter on the Reliance, bound for Hamburg, I suggested that a movement be undertaken to induce the inventor of the so-called death ray (TIME, June 2 et seq.), to sell his device to 'an interested body of trustworthy men and women' who would destroy it so it could never be used again. I was reported to have shown deep emotion, to have said: 'I would be willing to undertake a monster benefit performance in New York, giving all the proceeds as a nucleus of a fund...
Pablo Casals is almost universally acknowledged as the greatest violoncellist alive. Kreisler went so far as to call him the "greatest musician that has ever drawn a bow." His numbers tonight will include, in addition to two obligatos for the Glee Club, Tartini's "Concerto in D," and Beethoven's "Seven Variations on a Theme by Mozart." The most notable of the Glee Club's numbers will be "Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee," from Bach's "Sleepers Wake...
Sunday afternoon in the Opera House a recital by Fritz Kreisler surpassed by no living violinist...
...complete copy of Mr. Saslawsky's program follows: Ah. Mio Cor Handel Come and Trip it Handel The Plague of Love Dr. Arne So Sweete is Shee, Old English, arr. by William Fisher The Praise of Islay, Old Scotch, arr. by Fritz Kreisler Der Wanderer Schubert Seven Ditchterliebe Schumann Die Mainachi Brahms La Caravan Chausson Claire de Lune Faure Villanelle dos petits canards Chabrier Wiegenlied Moussorgsky Hopak Moussorgsky Poem of Musse Rachmaninoff The Steppe Gretchaninoff...