Search Details

Word: stradivariuses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...eventually killed operatic pictures-plucking a well-known star off the Metropolitan stage, dousing him in tribulations, and then laboriously and romantically putting him back in the Met-They Shall Have Music takes Heifetz and his fame for granted, never catches him with a movie queen instead of a Stradivarius in his arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: Aug. 7, 1939 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Shiny new violins and shabby old violins were tested by Acoustical Physicist Frederick Albert Saunders of Harvard, in collaboration with Virtuoso Jascha Heifetz. Their conclusion (announced last week at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Manhattan): A Stradivarius violin, when played slowly, is not superior in tone to the best modern instruments, but responds more quickly when difficult rapid passages are played-a result probably of aging, not of the makers' skill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fiddle Findings | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Works of Beethoven, Brahms, and Haydn comprise this year's program of the Stradivarius Quartet, which will give a concert at Fogg Museum next Thursday. Members of the famous Quartet are Wolfe Wolfinson, Bernard Robbins, Marcel Dick and Iwan d'Archambeau...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stradivarius Quartet | 12/3/1938 | See Source »

Rare chords of an ancient 1700 Stradivarius and a Guarnerius met an electric test of science yesterday in the laboratory of Frederick A. Saunders, professor of Physics, in an attempt to discover whether modern technique can surpass the art of the famous Italian masters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEIFETZ PLAYS FOR SCIENCE AS ANALYSER SPLITS SOUND | 11/8/1938 | See Source »

...Cologne Conservatory. Ousted by Nazis from his position as teacher in Berlin's Hochschule für Musik in 1933, he embarked on two world tours, was nailed on four continents as one of the greatest living virtuosos. While traveling, Cellist Feuermann never lets his $30,000 Stradivarius cello out of his sight, always buys an extra berth for it when forced to spend the night on the train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cellist | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Previous | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | Next