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...California String Quartet will appear Sunday through the generosity of Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. The members of the group are Felix Khuner, violin; David Schneider, violin; Detlev Olshausen, viola, and George Barati, 'cello...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foldes to Play in Piano Concert at Paine Hall Today | 4/9/1947 | See Source »

Thursday--Music Club Concert at Kirkland House, 7 o'clock. All Mozart program; including two quartets for piano and strings; Violin Sonata in E minor; Piano sonata in F. Douglas Allanbrook, piano; Margaret, Tobert, violin; Caroline Manning, viola; Peter Gram Swing, cello...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undergraduate Musical Activities | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

Jennie Tourel's phenomenal range, from low G to high C, is three notes wider than the average mezzo-soprano's. Says Jennie of herself: "The voice can be like a violin, it can be like a viola, it can be like a cello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Versatile Jennie | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

Mary Howard has been developing taste ever since she went to Miss Porter's select school at Farmington, Conn., where she learned to play the viola. After running away from Miss Porter's four times, she restrained herself until she reached 19, then did "what one does at 19": eloped with a Virginian who had a string of ponies. Four years later one of the ponies threw her, broke a vertebra in her neck. When it had healed she 1) got a divorce, 2) quit playing the viola because her neck was too weak to clinch the instrument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Perfectionist | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

Budapest's secret lies in the magnificence of its 'cellist, Mischa Schneider. Neither Roismann nor Ortenberg, the two violinists, are the equal of others playing their instruments in other quartets, while Kroyt, on the viola, is not a Sander Roth. Through Schneider's excellence and intelligent rehearsal however, they achieve by far the best all over performances you are likely to hear. At Pierian's plebian prices, it is distinctly worth your while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 10/30/1946 | See Source »

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