Word: violine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adjusted to shut out all but the glories of Fascismo. It was told by a pressman at Basel, Switzerland, that Mussolin's intestinal complaint now makes it necessary for him to subsist chiefly on milk and rice, and he seeks forgetfulness from sharp internal pains by playing on the violin when he cannot sleep. At Lugano, Switzerland, another journalist just returned from Italy declared that Roberto Farinacci, who recently resigned (TIME, April 12), as Secretary General of the Fascist Party, has definitely turned against Premier Mussolini and is raising an anti-Fascist rebellion in the northeastern provinces of Italy...
...violinist; Fred Patton, baritone; John Powell, composer-pianist. The American music was Powell's Variations and Fugue on a theme of F. C. Hahr, songs by Loeffler, Chadwick, Carpenter, Sidney Homer, Henry Hadley, E. S. Kelley, Walter Damrosch, Edward Harris, arrangements of Kentucky mountain songs by Howard A. Brockway, violin numbers by Brockway, Cecil Burleigh, Hadley, MacDowell and Sowerby...
...curtain rises. Two musicians?the first violin and the cellist?are seated, chatting. Conductor Stokowski strolls vaguely in from the wings. He bows. Puzzled applause from the audience?murmurs of "But good heavens, Victoria, where is the orchestra? . . . Down behind that backdrop? . . . I think it is simply too quaint. . . ." That no orchestra lurks behind the backdrop is clearly demonstrated when Mr. Stokowski raises his baton and the scrannel strains of the violin and cello tremble, quite unsupported, in the hostile air. . . . Now another musician comes in. He carries a horn and a handkerchief and flops down in the first convenient...
...presence of a band to blare its fulsome farewells into my ears; the true aesthetic vagabond must ever shrink from occasions of such banal blasts and boomings. But at 10 o'clock this morning I shall be in the Music Building to hear the finer, purer strains of Brahms' Violin Sonata when it is played in Professor Spalding's Music...
...eighth and 16th tones, and perfected instruments to play them-an "arpacitera" or harp zither, having 97 tones within the octave in subdivisions of 16ths; a French horn, made in Manhattan, that plays 16ths; an "octavina" that plays eighths; a guitar that plays quarters; and an ordinary cello and violin on which were played quarters and eighths. Last week the League of Composers gave a concert in Manhattan, presented among other things, Composer Carrillo's "Sonata Quasi Fantasia," with Composer Carillo as conductor. Critics, interested, found little beauty in the Sonata, saw, however, definite possibilities in Composer Carrillo...