Word: quartetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Concert of the Stradivarius Quartet will be held at the Harvard Faculty Club. Club members and their gnests will attend and tea will be served...
Listening the other night to the Stradivarius Quartet, a small string combo which is definitely good listening. Violin Wolfe Wolfinsohn is strictly gate stuff--being the only man I have ever heard who can cut Joe Venuti in his better days. He told me after the concert that he had often listened to Joe and that he enjoyed him very much. I am sorry to say that I didn't like the way the Strad boys played the Haydn. They rushed it like Toscanini playing the blues and I expected. Uncle Joe Haydn to pop through the skylight...
...time (1937-38) U. S. Open champion; happy-go-lucky Jimmy Demaret, winner of five of the twelve tournaments in the recently concluded winter circuit; and breezy Ben Hogan, winner of the last three winter tournaments with an unprecedented total of 34 under par for 216 holes. The quartet was notable because its members were all Texans-Guldahl a Dallasman, Demaret a Houstonian, Nelson and Hogan onetime fellow caddies at Fort Worth's Glen Garden Club...
...until 8:45 there will be an hour's classical program with commentary on which two Haydn selections will be played. First will be Symphony No. 102 in B flat Major. There will also be his quartet selection, Opus...
...undergraduate settles in his chair, he will hear Faculty members, record programs, mostly classical, concerts, from the Pierian, Glee Club, and Stradivarius Quartet. Argument, with forums. Drama, with radio plays. And sideline, ringside, poolside chatter till his spine prickles...