Word: violas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the famed Budapest Quartet played compositions by Schumann and Haydn, a packed house listened with hushed attention, savored each trill of the viola, each violinistic vibration. Many of the audience were well-known Manhattan musicians who had dropped in for a quiet taste of musicians' music. Many others were concert-hardened music lovers whom only the caviar of two violins, a viola and a cello could drag from their homes on a pleasant afternoon. But nearly all of them were regular patrons to whom the New Friends' concerts are a weekly ritual...
Mozart: Concerto No. 3 in E Flat Major for Horn and Orchestra (Aubrey Brain and the BBC Symphony, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; Victor; 4 sides; $2.50) and Duo No. 2 in B Flat Major for Violin and Viola (Jascha Heifetz and William Primrose; Victor; 5 sides; $3). Two out-of-the-way items, finely tooled...
...California this summer. The London quartet's last two violinists, tall John Pennington and deadpan Thomas W. Petre have been playing in cinema studio orchestras. Only dapper William Primrose had far to travel for the reunion-from Manhattan, where he is the NBC Symphony's crack viola player...
Dvorak: Quintet in E Flat Major (Prague String Quartet with Richard Kosderka, second viola; Victor; eight sides). Czech Dvorak's U.S. visit in the 1890s inspired this and other "American" works (From the New World, "American" Quartet, etc.), in which Negro and Indian themes are always on the verge of doing a polka. Good first recording...
...earn less than they did before the war; principals average $28 a week, "rank" players $16. But the men say their spines feel better. The Philharmonic now has a democratic constitution, is run by a committee composed of the Sub-Leader, First French Horn, Third Horn, Principal Trombone, Rank Viola. The Rank Viola-Thomas Russell -is secretary, too busy today to play in the orchestra. He used to carry the Philharmonic cash in a little black bag, now has a bank account. Since the barnstorming began, the orchestra has played music like Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (most popular...