Word: violas
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...harpists preponderate. There are two in Cleveland's orchestra, one each in the big orchestras in Detroit, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Manhattan. . The San Francisco Symphony has three lady violinist?, two lady 'cellists; Minneapolis has a lady violinist; Los Angeles and Cincinnati a lady pianist each: Cleveland a lady viola player. These fortunates get union wages. When the Chicago Woman's Symphony feels pinched, its members play for $5 a week. Leginska and her players gave their services...
...musicians playing in the Ensemble are: Dorothy Comstock, First Violin; Anna Golden, Viola; Robert Gunderson, Second Violin; and Jacobus Langendoen, Violoncello. They will be assisted by Putnam Aldrich on the Harpsichord...
...novelty for Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofe to be performing in public. He used to play first viola in the Los Angeles Philharmonic beside his grandfather, a 'cellist, and his uncle who was concertmaster. Grofe's family in-tended him for business so at 14 he ran away, became an elevator operator, then a truckman, a milkman, a heaver in an iron foundry, a pressman in a bookbindery. When he composed a march for an Elks' Reunion in Los Angeles his family relented, let him go in for music...
...just preparing to sit down before a keyboard, to play the harpsichord part of Handel's G Minor Concerto for Strings, also to conduct the orchestra. Sometimes his right hand, sometimes his left, flew from the keyboard long enough to let his will be emphatically known to violinists, 'cellists, viola and contrabass players. But he conducted for the most part by facial expressions slightly stern...
Trio (for violin, viola, and celo) Cras...