Word: violas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only previous Shakespearean experience was as Portia and Viola. I admire her when she sticks to the limited bailiwick in which she can excel. But as a Shakespearean she is a nullity. She is often termed the doyenne of American actresses; but her current gambol earns her no better title than Helen...
...second recorded music and punch hours in Matthews Hall will take place. Punch will be served on Saturday 4-6 p.m. and Sunday 4-6 p.m. Sunday morning 9:30-11:30 coffee be will served. The recorded music schedule for Saturday afternoon is: Thompson...Suit for Oboe, clarinet, viola, Jongen...Concerto, op. 24 Beethoven...Sonate No. 15 in Major (pastorals) Op. 28. Bizet Symphon No.1 in C Major. ...Concerto for Oboe and in D Minor and F. Borodin Quartet No. 2 in D Major. The recorded music schedule Sunday afternoon is as is follows: Rangstrom...King Eric's Divertimento...
Last week a plump Montclair, N.J., housewife was working hard at closing the string gap: aided by a Guggenheim grant, Carleen Maley Hutchins was devising the members of a new family of seven stringed instruments-including a vertical viola...
Beyond Belief. At 51, Mrs. Hutchins is a widely respected maker of violas and occasional cellos and violins (she makes violins "only when there isn't enough wood left to make a viola"). When the Boston Symphony's Eugene Lehner wants a viola, he goes straight to Montclair (where Mrs. Hutchins sells them for $600 apiece); the Budapest String Quartet's Mischa Schneider has used one of her cellos. Says one satisfied Hutchins customer, David Mankovitz, who played with the Kroll Quartet: "Her viola creates a sensation wherever I play it. People want to know...
Good Carpenter. Violas started emerging from the Hutchins' living room about 15 years ago. Mrs. Hutchins, who was teaching science at the Brearley School in Manhattan, started studying the viola and discarded a store-bought model to try to make her own from blueprints. Although a Steinway violinmaker pronounced her first effort the work of "a good carpenter," she went ahead with No. 2, soon began turning out instruments that were good enough to sell. Nowadays, she tries to use the same woods Stradivarius used; she gets spruce and curly maple from the mountains of Czech been seasoning since...