Word: stradivariuses
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...Germanic Museum has announced a program of music for organ and strings to be given tonight in the main hall by E. Power Biggs and members of the Stradivarius Quartet.. Opening the program is a group of English organ solos by William Byrd. John Bull, Purcell. William Walond, organist at Oxford in the eighteenth century, and John Stanley, the famous blind organist at the Temple during the same century. Byrd's Pavan for the Earl of Salisbury was commonly played on the virginals, and Purcell's Trumpet Voluntary and Trumpet Airs on the harpsichord. But since at that time...
...made even more rewarding by the skill and musicianship of Erwin Bodky. The concert of classical chamber-music at the Germanic Museum the other night demonstrated this most beautifully, and there will be future concerts of the same type, which I shall try to mention in advance. Meanwhile, the Stradivarius Quartet has scheduled a program at the Germanic Museum for next Wednesday evening, consisting of the Beethoven Quartet Opus 131 in C Sharp minor, and the Schubert "Death and the Maiden" Quartet, two of the very greatest in the literature...
...Stradivarius String Quartet, which is again making Harvard its headquarters this year, has been touring House Common-rooms for several weeks with its performances of chamber-music. Tuesday night at Leverett House it played a program very likely to be repeated at the Fogg Wednesday evening, which included an early Beethoven quartet, a Schumann quartet, and a quartet by the contemporary talent Martinu. This followed out their usual policy of playing at each concert one classical, one romantic, and one modern quartet. The players made sure to place their modern offering in the middle: doubtless they were afraid of shocking...
...other hand, the Schumann A major quartet that the Stradivarius men played, did ring true. Not one of Schumann's greatest works, like all his work, it diffused a fresh lyrical charm which was a pleasure to listen to after the nervous pyrotechnics of the Martinu quartet...
Loren MacKinney was added to the acroll of maimed and injured players yesterday, but according to the medicos, he will probably be fit as a Stradivarius and ready to partake on Saturday against Penn...