Word: viol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Muck's successor, Pierre Monteux (now the San Francisco Symphony's conductor) let it sing modern music-Stravinsky, Falla, Honegger, Milhaud. Then, in 1924, began the 25-year reign of Serge Koussevitzky, onetime bass-viol virtuoso and one of the great conductors of his time. Under his stern but benevolent rule, the Boston had come to a peak of polished perfection, and U.S. composers, subsidized and encouraged with commissions, had found a new home...
...ensemble, which will be making its first appearance in this vicinity, will be led by Safford Cape. Included in the 12 man group will be five singers and performers on the viol, lute, recorder, and the minstrel's harp...
Music lovers may enjoy a rare opportunity tonight at 8:30 when the Boston Society of Ancient Instruments will present at the Memorial Church a concert of viol compositions of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries...
...participating artists are: Paul Fedorowsky, Descant viol; Albert Bernard, Treble viol and Viola d'amore; Alfred Zighera, Viola da gamba; Gaston Dufresne, Bass viol; and E. Power Biggs, organ...
...After years of wrestling his bull fiddle in & out of taxicabs, a Newark musician named Peter Ruggiero invented a collapsible bass viol which folds into a package no bigger than a saxophone case...