Word: stradivariuses
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...Rested by his recent seaside holiday, mellow old George V last week felt fit as a Stradivarius for his exhausting Silver Jubilee which commences May 6. Shushing the royal physicians, who favored further rest, the King-Emperor insisted on doing two major chores...
...commissioned the Sacred Service and to him Composer Bloch had dedicated it. He was Gerald Warburg who, when he left Harvard, chose to be a 'cellist rather than enter his father Felix's banking business (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.).* Four years ago when he organized the Stradivarius Quartet, Gerald Warburg toured with it to San Francisco. There he found Ernest Bloch teaching at the San Francisco Conservatory, chafing because he had so little time for composition. Warburg made it possible for Bloch to find peace in Switzerland, where he proceeded to learn Hebrew so that each accent, each phrase...
...Stradivarius Quartet return to Cambridge today after an unexpected long interval because M. Pochon has been suffering from a bad wrist. They will play in the Fogg Art Museum at eight o'clock the following programme: Mozart's Quartet in E flat major, Kochel No. 428; La Oracion del Torero by Joaquin Turina; a Scherzo of Glazounow; and the Beethoven Quartet, Opus...
Menuhin. Plenty of ice-cream was 16-year-old Yehudi Menuhin's reward this week for a Manhattan recital superbly played. With his $60,000 Stradivarius, Yehudi goes from Manhattan to play at Smith College. He wears long pants now, made for him by the tailor to the Italian Crown Prince. But he is still carefully protected from alluring young girls. His mother and his two plump little sisters, Hepzibah and Yaltah, will go with him to Northampton. Both girls play the piano expertly but Mother Menuhin decided several years ago that one prodigy in the family was enough...
...Stradivarius Quartet will play its last Harvard concert this season in the Fogg Museum at 8 o'clock tonight...