Word: violas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carnegie Hall last week was, in effect, a new ensemble. Actually only a little over 10% of the personnel had been changed. But that 10% were mostly first-desk men, whose musical and psychological effect on an orchestra is crucial. The Philharmonic had a new concertmaster, a new solo viola, a new first oboe and bassoon, two new first horns, a new trombone, a new tuba. The orchestra played with a precision and energy that led many to hope that it might soon resume its historic place as a real rival of the Boston and Philadelphia orchestras...
Five kinds of violins unfamiliar to most concert-goers were heard at the Sanders Theatre Concert on Sunday with the Boston Society playing compositions ranging from 16th Century dances to Handel on a descant violin, a treble violin, a viola da gamba, and a violone. All of these look very similar to modern instruments except the viola da gamba ("Viol of the leg") which is a small 'cello resting on the knee...
Grocers & Grousing. In Elwood, Ind., Grocer Harrison Holmes listened to a customer complain for an hour about rationing, got a gun and shot him dead. In Hartford, Conn., Grocer Salvatore Viola announced that he was tired of his job. Said he: "I will quit and go pick dandelions...
Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians took a laborer's view of the case. One of those fired was Viola Player Calman Fleisig, of the orchestra's union committee. Said Fleisig: "Mainly a labor question." Upshot at week's end: an impasse on negotiation of contracts for the entire orchestra for next year...
Mozart: Quintet in G Minor, K. 516 (Budapest Quartet with M. Katims, viola; Columbia; 8 sides). A fine ensemble continues working the richest musical seams...