Word: violas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then Vag wondered at the sensitivity and skill of the musicians. He watched them in fascination--the violinists and viola player holding their instruments tenderly and almost caressingly between check and shoulder, the cellist bending protectively over his cello. He marvelled at that unanimity which made them function as one man--as if some supernatural and awing force made the thoughts of each the common property of all. He felt that they must all be friends, close friends, that they must know each other as well as it is possible for one man to fathom another...
...Longy School open house concert tonight is made up of four small chamber works--Violin and Viola Duos by Mozart; Konzert in G dur by Heinichen for oboe, two violins, violoncello, and harpsichord; a Handel sonata for oboe and harpsichord, and a Harpsichord Solo by Bach. Concerts like this typify the contemporary tendency to play harpsichord music on the harpsichord rather than on the more common piano. This tendency is an interesting result of the musicological development which has led to the revival in modern times of so much old music and several old instruments...
...unfortunate that the Stradivarius Quartet concert scheduled for Wednesday evening had to be postponed. The quartet was to play Beethoven's Quartet in E flat, op. 12; a Wolzan-Kodaly Serenade for two violins and viola; and Quartet No. 4 by Milhaud. It is to be hoped that this concert will be given later in the season...
...last week Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer smashed into the U. S. radical movement. On Jan. 2, 1920, Department of Justice agents con verged on radical hangouts and hideouts, rounded up 3,000 suspects the first day, blackened the administration of Woodrow Wilson as charges of injustice, of viola tions of civil liberties, of sluggings, thirddegrees, left a heritage of suspicion of U. S. laws and U. S. courts. The radical movement recovered, but not the political fortunes of wavy-haired, square-jawed A. Mitchell Palmer...