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...chant. And there's the inevitable song about how lonely a fellow can be in this big town with all the people 'round. This one is followed by a ballet number on the same theme which employs every cliche of dance and plot. It is very well danced by Viola Essen, but Markova couldn't make choreography interesting...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Along Fifth Avenue | 1/4/1949 | See Source »

Brahms: Quartet No. 3, Op. 60 (Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano; Alexander Schneider, violin; Milton Katims, viola; Frank Miller, cello; Mercury, 7 sides). Mercury could hardly have gotten together a finer ensemble (Schneider is a Budapest Quartet alumnus; Katims and Miller are both first chair men in Toscanini's NBC Symphony) to bring this grimly powerful Brahms quartet back on the record shelves. Performance and recording : excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Skeptics. In Viola, Wis., Lester Heal smugly reported to police that burglars had smashed into his safe labeled "No money here," had gone away emptyhanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 27, 1948 | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...face, and the walrus mustache, were familiar to San Franciscans, but they were not used to seeing him sitting down, with a viola tucked under his chin. Last week San Francisco concertgoers saw their symphony's conductor, famed old Pierre Monteux, sitting in with a string quartet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: No Frowning | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...starting Dunster lineup: le, Smith; lt, Wesen; lg, O'Shea; c, Kelley; rg, Smith; rt, Bruce; re, Graham; qb, Viola; lh, Pearlstein; rh, MacDonald; fb, Heller or Schultz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Games Cover Soldiers Field | 11/19/1948 | See Source »

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