Word: quartetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Andor Foldes, New York pianist, will present a concert of modern music at the Paine Music Building at 8:30 tonight in the first of two Department-sponsored programs this week. Sunday evening the California String Quartet will perform selections from Schubert, Barati, and Beethoven. Both concerts are open to the public and are free...
...California String Quartet will appear Sunday through the generosity of Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. The members of the group are Felix Khuner, violin; David Schneider, violin; Detlev Olshausen, viola, and George Barati, 'cello...
Shubert's String Quartet Opus 161, Beethoven's String Quartet in B flat, Opus 18, and a piece written by Barati in 1944 in honor of Mrs. Coolidge, will comprise the program Sunday...
...Toscanini, who had made it plain that he wanted no demonstrations, passed his 80th birthday quietly at home as he wished; but the NBC Symphony sneaked in a demonstration anyway. Delivered to his home, and played at dinner: a special recording (the Minuet from Schubert's A Minor Quartet), preceded and followed by recorded congratulations...
...Back-Scratchers-established radio stars who visit each other's shows, without charge, on a "you-scratch-my-back-and-ril-scratch-yours" basis. Under this arrangement, Jack Benny last week assembled a "Million Dollar Quartet" (Bing Crosby, Dick Haymes, Andy Russell, Dennis Day) for only $3,000. Russell, the only one without a radio show of his own, was the only one Benny had to pay. World's Champion Back-Scratcher is Bob Hope, who solemnly estimates that during the next month he will spend more than half his waking hours in broadcasting studios...