Word: tartini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sanders Theatre is to house the Federal Music Project's State Symphony Orchestra next Sunday evening in a program headed by Tschaikowsky's First Symphony and including Tartini's Concerto in A Major. These concerts are not of the first or even second rank technically, but they are almost invariably quite worthwhile as a musical experience, and the low price of admission is an added attraction...
...which boxes were taken by such important patrons as Charles Henry Swift, Rufus Cutler Dawes, Harold Fowler McCormick, Conductor Stock. Pianist Josef Hofmann was playing two blocks away but a good-sized audience came to hear Rosenstein, heartily applauded his poise throughout a difficult program, his accurate speed in Tartini's Devil's Trill Sonata, his purity of tone enhanced by a $20,000 Stradivarius lent him for the occasion...