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...time, to keep her at home and well attended, Braunsdorf had four jobs-one playing the bass viol with the orchestra, one teaching music, one on a Ford assembly line, and one as registrar with Detroit Business University. The strain of such a working schedule soon began to tell. In 1942 Braunsdorf fell ill, put all his earnings in a florist shop to recoup his finances, but eventually had to sell it at a loss. Finally, he resigned himself to leaving Virginia at a private sanitarium...
Detroit's Scandinavian Symphony Orchestra actually goes back some 20 years. Early in its history the late motor magnate William S. Knudsen, who liked to relax with his Scandinavian friends, gave them a bass viol. The orchestra had no musician to play it, but that was fixed in a hurry. Violinist Chris Marck was tapped because he had a car large enough to carry a bass viol...
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...
...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...