Word: stradivaris
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Alceo Dossena had a good apprenticeship for his profession. He was born in 1878 in Cremona, hometown of the great Violin Maker Stradivari, and apprenticed to a marble mason. With his master he worked for years restoring the balustrades and ornaments of local churches in Cremona, Piacenza, Parma-restorations that not only copied the details but imitated the patina of nearby originals. Soon he was restoring not only marble but bronze, terra cotta and wood...
...feathers to stuff one ball. They are a wee bit hard." Pride of the collection are a group of early 19th Century clubs from the bench of the late great Hugh Philip of Scotland. "Just as fine a piece of skill this chap Philip had with golf clubs as Stradivari with his violins. There is nothing sweeter than some of his sticks. Fact is, every one of them I got is a treasure. Thank the Lord golf sticks can't be turned out like ice boxes. . . ." The Virginia gentry who will soon have a chance to see the work...
Capt. Yves Thomas of the S.S. Paris had company in his cabin on the last crossing. It was the famed Davidoff cello, made by Stradivari in 1712 for the Grand Duke of Tuscany, later owned by Karl Davidoff, cellist at the Imperial Russian Court. Valued at some $85,000 it came to the U. S. to enter the Wurlitzer collection. Capt. Thomas, himself a violinist, agreed it was .too valuable for the regular cargo, offered himself as bodyguard...
...Later in the week, the White House had a musicale all its own- 17th and 18th Century chamber music played from original manuscript on 16 Stradivari, Montagnana, Guadanini and Amati instruments from the Ronald Wanamaker collection, under the direction of Dr. Thaddeus Rich. When he heard that Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh was nearing Mexico City (see p. 28), President Coolidge took-pen-in-hand and signed an act of Congress conferring the Congressional Medal on Col. Lindbergh. A little while later, while the President was sitting to Mrs. Elizabeth Stevenson Wright of Cleveland for his portrait, the daughter of another...
...concert master of the Philadelphia Orchestra. From the first grand chord of the organ prelude to the last lingering vibration of Soloist Rich's violin the audience were silent, as 15,000 disembodied spirits straining for the trumpet call of the angels. They heard the famed Wanamaker instruments, Stradivari, Guarnarius, Quadagnini, Montaguana, Gofriller . . . played in massed unison by the great string quartets of the U. S. - Flonzaley, Pro Arte, Lenox, Vertchamp, with four bass viols in accompaniment. Under Mr. Rich's direction the musicians poured harmonies and melodies from Purcell's Suite in C Major. Into...