Word: stradivariuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weather is good tomorrow, the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Stradivarius Quartet will give one of a series of Holmes Hall Concerts in the Radcliffe Quad between Holmes and Comstock Halls...
When he threaded his way through the orchestra, his 1707 Stradivarius at his side, 5 ft. 5 in. Violinist Kogan looked as though he could never work his short arms through the pyrotechnic bowings the music called for. But when he started to play Brahms's Violin Concerto, he proved that, like the other Soviet soloists who have visited the U.S. since the war, he had all the technique he needed and some to spare. The familiar music poured from his bow in purling, honey-sweet ribbons of sound. His inflections were a marvel of etched sensitivity, his pianissimos...
Died. William Rooe Simpson, 60, last of five generations of William Simpsons who operated (from 1822 to 1937) an elegant pawnshop on New York's Lower East Side, blithe lender of money against such collateral as the Hope diamond, a Stradivarius, Titian paintings, 15th century manuscripts and pornographic watches, subject of lively reminiscences (Hockshop); of a heart attack; in Brownsville, Texas...
Carrying his priceless Stradivarius cello* over his head like a toy. strapping (6 ft. 3½ in.) Virtuoso Gregor Piatigorsky threaded his way through the string section of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony one evening last week, settled himself into the soloist's chair by the podium and launched into a Cello Concerto newly written for him by his old friend Sir William Walton. If the piece itself seemed to ramble like a sun-warmed cow through sprawling masses of musical foliage. Piatigorsky's playing of it was a marvel of taste and tone. Under his sensitive hands...
...Stuttgart has completed its attempt to provide an acoustically perfect shape with its $2,600,000 Liederhalle. The result is a windowless, concrete, ear-shaped main auditorium (capacity: 2,000) with as many curves as a Stradivarius. On the right wall hangs a cluster of boxes, below a buttonhook-shaped balcony that begins at orchestra level, becomes a raised balcony on the back wall. Says Co-Architect Adolf Abel: "The layout not only makes more sense acoustically but it helps to relax the audience...