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...termite-proof wood winds; Dr. Gino Hamilton, as our chairman and intermission commentator; and Dr. Henry Levine, with his Dixieland Little Symphony of eight men and no-Period. As the Society's special guest: Professor Louis Kievman, the long-haired musician who plays a bald-headed viola. . . . But the concert is now in progress...
Smetana: Quartet No. I ("From My Life") (Curtis String Quartet; Columbia: 7 sides) and Dvořák: Sextet in A Major (Budapest String Quartet, with John Moore, second cello, and Watson Forbes, second viola; Victor: 8 sides). Polka-dotted nostalgia by old Bohemia's greatest composers; the Dvořák for the first time on records...
...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...