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...years ago when they were both billed to sing and play at a dinner in a conservative English club. They began writing songs which never got any further than the three-piece ladies' band (violin, viola and piano) which...
Last week, with a grin, William Primrose pulled the rug out from under these connoisseurs of tone. During most of his concert appearances in the past nine months, his valuable Antonio Amati viola (circa 1630) had stayed in its plush-lined case. The viola his audience heard was American (circa 1945). He had played it for more than 40 concerts to prove a point: "There's more snobbery connected with old instruments than with anything I know...
Made to Measure. For "The Primrose," Young Bill Moennig spent a year and a half studying the violist's playing technique, then almost six months shaping and making the viola. Primrose told him: "I want quality with power so that the music will come out without an obvious wrestling match in front of the public." Moennig tried to blend the measurements of a Strad and an Amati, to get the Amati's mellow roundness with the greater brilliance of the Strad...
Mozart: Quintet in C Major (Budapest String Quartet with Milton Katims, viola; Columbia, 8 sides). One of Mozart's most beguiling scores played in the grand manner by men who know their Mozart. Performance: excellent...
When Benjamin Self and his stout, hearty wife Viola arrived in Val D'Or, Quebec, eleven years ago, they had $4 in cash and $267 worth of hardware. When the Selfs retired last week and headed for a U.S. vacation (the World Series, Ben's birthplace at Claremore, Okla., the Mardi Gras at New Orleans, then the warm sun of Florida and Cuba), they had $20,000 cash-the price they got for their hardware store-$100,000 in Val D'Or real estate, and an estimated 100,000 shares of 32?-a-share stock...