Word: violin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Scene de Ballett (de Berriot)-Violin solo by Mr. Longworth...
...Glee Club gave the "Serenade" and "The Jolly Musician," and as before were encored by the audience. The "Waltz from Serenade" by the string instruments of the Pierian was well executed. Mr. Longworth, '91, concluded Part I by a very fine exhibition of violin playing. His work was remarkably skilful and finished, and he gives promise of becoming a very strong player...
...Mendelssohn. Concerto for Violin...
...Loeffler's playing of Mendelssohn's concerto for the violin was marked by the players technical abilities rather than by a warm and inspired treatment of the subject. The last movement which requires a very delicate bowing, was admirably played by the soloist. He was warmly applauded by the audience at the end of the movement...
...records for the intervening period have disappeared most mysteriously. In those days "scarcely a sound but flutes was heard. From these the gentle murmurings or liquid trills rose from every side of the quadrangle the moment the bell at twelve rang the close of the morning study hours." The violin was not thought much of, and for the term of four years two violins and a violoncello were the only stringed instruments in the club, or in the college at large. French horns, and bass-horns called "semi-brass monsters" were occasional innovations, but we learn that on more than...