Word: stradivariuses
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Organist Biggs believes that the 18th-Century organs, few of which exist today, reached the same peak of perfection as the violins of Stradivarius, feels that organs made since, with their gadgets and kickshaws, have come a long way downhill...
...cost of gasoline engines and with greater simplicity. Impatient prophets who interpret this as a sign that automobiles with Diesel engines are close at hand will have to burn while General Motors fiddles, according to Boss Kettering. Said he, opening the new plant: "You would not buy a Stradivarius violin and give it to a man to play in Carnegie Hall the same night. We have got a good fiddle, we know that, but we have got to do a lot of practicing...
...Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis Facie bat Anno...
...were played at a single Carnegie Hall concert. Noted Violinist Efrem Zimbalist played on his famed Lamoureux (Strads, like Pullman cars, all have individual names). Listeners marveled at the mellow, homogeneous tone quality of the eight glistening, red-gold instruments played by the Musical Art Quartet and the Stradivarius .Quartet of New York, the small string orchestra over which senatorial Walter Damrosch waved a deliberate baton. The occasion for this Stradivarius display was the 200th anniversary of the death of Antonio Stradivari. Proceeds went to the recently founded Stradivarius Memorial Association, which helps make fine instruments available to talented young...
Warburg, a benefactor of the Fogg Museum, had always taken an active interest in the Quartet and obtained the four Stradivarius instruments played by them...