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Kussevitsky broke into music with the bass viol, making both himself and the instrument famous. He played in the Imperial Opera and became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory, his alma mater. Before the War he cruised on the Volga with his orchestra, giving symphony concerts in places unknown to that art. Since the War he has been engaged in Western Europe...
...oddest series of recitals for the U. S. next season will be that of Lionel Tertis. Mr. Tertis is an English musician of some note. His instrument is the viola. Few lay citizens know just what the viola is. It is a member of the viol family, lying midway between the violin and the violoncello. In appearance it is nothing more than a large violin, played in the customary position for the violin. Its tone is very distinctive, deeper, mellower and moodier than that of the violin. Its lack lies in variety. It does not have the alternate darkness...
...story appears in the dramatic section of the Sunday paper that Melinda Mulch, star of the Stupidities of 1923, keeps a canvasback duck in her dressing-room. One day the duck snaps at the leading man; another, it escapes and is discovered in the bass viol; finally it lays an egg and half the company pay bets to the other half. These diverting incidents the public reads intently. The interest thus aroused lures them by tens and dozens to part with $4.40 to see this bizarre Melinda Mulch-the leading lady with a leaning toward canvasback ducks. As a matter...
...management has urged players of the bassoon, the oboe, or the bass viol, to report at the next rehearsal on Monday evening, November 6, at 7.30 o'clock in the Music Building, as the orchestra is in need of these instruments. Cornet players can arrange at this time for instruction in the French horn and other brass instruments from Mr. G. L. Patterson '00, a former player in the Pierian Orchestra...
...apply who can play one of the following instruments: violin, viola, 'cello, bass viol, flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, horns, cornet, trumpet, trombone. Woodwinds and brasses are especially desired...