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Sixteen years ago, a new star was heralded on the horizon of music. A young Dutch violinist, Peter van der Meer, late of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, gave a violin recital in Carnegie Hall. His interpretation of Paganini's Concerto in D Major met with especial acclaim. But soon Van der Meer was forgotten. In 1915, he became blind, after a long illness. He spent six years in the Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan. Recently he was pronounced cured-but his sight had left him forever...
Peter Van der Meer, who enthralled a street crowd in Pittsburgh, has gone on his way southward, the magic violin under his arm. Where he is going he knows not. He has no money other than the gifts of casual hearers...
...peculiar tinge to the first ceremony. Among Russian names are given: Vladimir Ilich (after Lenin whose real name is V. I. Ulianov-Lenin) ; Klara Zetkin and Rosa Luxemburg (after two leading women Bolsheviki) ; Jaurès (after a French Communist, assassinated in 1914) ; Rem, meaning "revolution, electrification and meer (peace)"; Nep, meaning New Economic Policy; and some others...
...dreadful possibility of a meeting between a Vladimir Ilich Ulianov Lenin New Economic Policy and a Klara Zetkin Revolution Electrification Meer...
...Meer, Schubert...