Word: viola
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...butcher who handled a bull-fiddle as familiarly as if it were one of the big carcasses hanging in his refrigerator, a Sears, Roebuck accountant who plays the viola, a postman who is also a flutist, and 100 other double-lived Chicago businessmen hurried from their workaday jobs early one night last week, dressed themselves in freshly-pressed business suits and set out for Orchestra Hall to demonstrate how well a band of earnest, carefully-rehearsed amateurs could play...
...Friday nights throughout the winter the Orchestra congregates in the Hub Store fitting-room. Conductor Evans, a Chicago Symphony viola player, is the only paid professional in the lot. The concertmaster is Sidney James, a handsome, white-haired chemical engineer. One of the 'cellists is a brain-specialist- Dr. Adrien Henri Pierre Eugene Verbrugghen, son of Belgian Henri Verbrugghen who used to conduct the Minneapolis Symphony...
...would use to hire a professional money-campaigner. Campaigner John McKeown, advised by his brother Mitchell McKeown, managing director of Chicago's Unemployment Fund, was hard at work for the Friends last week. At a big organization dinner at the Drake Hotel, Frederick Stock, who played the viola in the Chicago Symphony before he became its conductor, gravely tucked his instrument under his chin, played publicly for the first time in 20 years. Total of the Friends of Music's fund up to this week (unofficial...
...Voice of the Younger Generation," Modern Youth is less articulate than its editor, pretty Viola Ilma, 22, less remarkable than the story she tells of herself: She is the granddaughter of a Swiss Quaker missionary and an Abyssinian princess. Her father calls himself Prince Ali Youssuf Ilma, played character parts on the Manhattan stage. Six years ago Miss Ilma won a $10,000 prize from Liberty for an article. "The Aim of the Modern High School Girl." Liberty last week said it had no record of that award. But Editrix Ilma's story continues: She went around the world...
...program is as follows: Quartet in G Major, Opus 77, No. 1 Haydn First Movement, Quartet G Minor DeBussy Quintet in B Minor for Clarinet and Strings Brahms The personnel of the quintet is as follows: M. H. Holmes '28 First Violin Harold Schmidt '32 Second Violin James Ulmer Viola A. O. Allen 2G Cello T. F. Parshley '35 Clarinet...