Word: stradivariuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This season, Knight roped in another star-studded cast for 1950's "seventh week." And he was even getting in a little second fiddling of his own. While his family sprawled on the living-room rug, he clamped a Stradivarius under his chin, launched into a Mozart quartet with three members of the famed Paganini Quartet. Grinned little First Violinist Henry Temianka: "He didn't get lost once." Said Second Fiddler Knight: "I only play with good musicians. Two punks would ruin the music...
...flowing down the corridors -and the brasses got their chance to show they still had both wind and beauty of tone. In Chausson's Poème, with Violinist Ruggiero Ricci as guest soloist, the strings got to prove that they improve with age, like a fine old Stradivarius. By the time they had wound up the concert with a powerful performance of Richard Strauss's Death and Transfiguration, with everybody bowing and blowing their best together, they had won themselves a hearty hand...