Word: stradivariuses
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Will have nationally known violinist in guise of street fiddler lay bow to Stradivarius on Michigan Avenue in a curbstone concert citizens would pay $5-a-seat for if they knew what they were hearing. Stunt strictly on square with no packed audience. Will he stop the traffic on Michigan Avenue, musical centre of Midwest...
Editor Straus persuaded Violinist Jacques Gordon ($1,000 per concert) of the Chicago Symphony to make the experiment. In smoked glasses, matted grey wig. tattered frock coat, Fiddler Gordon posted himself at a busy Michigan Avenue corner, fiddled for 30 minutes on his $40,000 Stradivarius. Pennies, nickels, dimes from passersby totalled...
Efrem Zimbalist, famed violinist, was sued by George Smith, Los Angeles fiddle dealer, who said that Violinist Zimbalist had paid him but $2,000 of an $8,000 debt - the price of two instruments. Counsel for Violinist Zimbalist contended that one of the violins, listed as a 1717 Stradivarius, was spurious, that the maestro had been cozened...
...Stradivarius Quartet will present their last public concert of the season in the Court of the Fogg Art Museum tonight at 8.30 o'clock, under the auspices of the Division of Music and the Fogg Art Museum...
...Flonzaley Quartet, which was one of the most famous that American music circles has known. These members are: Alfred Pochon, second violin, and Nicolas Moldavan, viola. The other two members are Wolfe Wolfinsohn, first violin, and Gerald Warburg, violoncello. These artists have been fortunate enough to have four Stradivarius instruments placed at their disposal...