Word: stradivariuses
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When a railroad official asked passengers on a train passing through Aberdeen, Scotland if one of them had lost a couple of violins, up jumped Violinist Jascha Heifetz, sputteringly recalled that he had left his Stradivarius and Joseph Guarnerius worth $150,000 in the Dundee station lunchroom. "And did I have the jitters until they arrived by the next train!" cried he afterward...
...Stradivarius Quartet, an admirable chamber music group, is to give a concert in the central court of Fogg Art Museum next Tuesday evening. Bach's Passacaglia in C minor, arranged by Alfred Pochon, Beethoven's Quartet in D major (Opus 18), and Haydn's Quartet in B flat major (Opus 64, No. 3) are to be performed. The San Carlo Opera Company is opening a week's engagement at the Opera House next Monday evening with "Carmen." "Aida" will be given the following night and the repertoire for the rest of the week includes "Lohengrin," "Madame Butterfly," "Rigoletto," "Faust...
Though musically the violin is by all odds the most important stringed instrument, there have been no Steinways of the fiddle trade since Stradivarius and Amati. Of course, the reason is that a good violin never wears, out. Improving with age, they are traded like works of art. What few fine U. S. violins are made today are the product of independent craftsmen like Manhattan's Paulus Pilat, who turns out ten instruments per year at $500 to $750 each...
...Foyer Dedicated to Stradivarius," by George W. Browster, Jr., a second year man at the School, and a pair of identical sheets, which are reproductions of an extremely involved sketch showing the "Correlation of Function, Design, and Construction," by Richard H. Cutting, graduated in 1934, make up the remainder of the list...
...shall never rest as long as hungry bodies cry for food, as long as lean human frames stand naked, as long as homeless wretches haunt this land of plenty." It ended: ''His unlimited talents invariably aroused the jealousies of those inferiors who posed as his equals. He was the Stradivarius, whose notes rose in competition with jealous drums, envious tomtoms. His was the unfinished symphony...