Word: stradivariuses
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...changed more. In Java on a concert tour, he and his wife had been interned by the Japanese in 1943 as Polish nationals. In 2½ years he had been in 14 prison camps, separated from his wife for all but five months (she managed to keep his Stradivarius...
...living ears have ever heard the three greatest Stradivarius violins. "The Messiah" Strad rests in Oxford's Ashmolean Museum; the equally famed "Alard" is owned by an English collector who does not fiddle with it. The third great Strad, "The Earl of Plymouth," was found in 1925 in an old storeroom on the Earl's estate. Fritz Kreisler bought the "Earl...
...Powers, who quit concert playing in 1937 when she married a wealthy businessman, now wants to make a comeback at 30. Kreisler had hardly ever played the Earl Strad in concerts ; he found it did not suit his leisurely fiddling style as well as one made by Guarnerius, a Stradivarius contemporary...
...third concert of the season by the Stradivarius Quartet will be given at the Fogg Museum of Art on Monday, May 1, at 8:15 o'clock. This concert will be open free to all members of the University and Radcliffe students, and also to servicemen and their wives stationed in Cambridge. All those wishing tickets can apply either by mail or personally at the Museum, starting tomorrow...
Fogg Art Museum will present the second Stradivarius Quartet concert of the season on Friday, February 25, at 8:15 o'clock. The last such free concert was on December 2. Members of the University, Radcliffe, and Service men are invited...