Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quartet consisting of Vinal, Windhurst, Schwarz, and Hart will play for the jazz fans, the intellectual curious, and the hardier dancers beginning a week from Friday night. Of course you can never tell who might sit in. An intriguing possibility presents itself when Louis Armstrong comes to Boston. Since the hand plays a good many of Louis' old tunes, such as "Muskrat Ramble," "Dippermouth Blues,' "Struttin' With Some Barbecue," "Sunset Cafe Stomp," "Big Butter and Egg Man," "Come Back Sweet Papa," and "Squeeze Me," you might stumble into the master himself dipping back into his very colorful past to play...
Friday at 8:15 o'clock the Stradivarius Quartet will give its second concert of the season at the Fogg Museum...
Kroyt's English is strictly from Odessa. Once in Australia, a noted critic was introduced to the Quartet. Said the critic to Kroyt: "I have just met your wife." Said Kroyt: "Thank you very much." Kroyt fishes from a motorboat on the Potomac. Like the others, he sees very little of his colleagues socially. Each has his own set of friends...
...Flonzaley Quartet was disbanded...
...original Budapest Quartet, which toured Europe and the U.S. in the 1920s, was as 100% Hungarian as goulash. By 1927 its second fiddler left and a Russian took his place. By 1932 there was not a Hungarian left. Today the four are 43-year-old first violinist Josef Roismann from Odessa; 35-year-old second violinist Alexander Schneider from Vilna; 43-year-old violist Boris Kroyt from Odessa; 39-year-old cellist Mischa Schneider, brother of Alexander...