Word: violine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nightly in the old Bowery Theatre, Manhattan, one may hear the eerie shiver of the Oriental cymbal, the monotonous turn-turn of the bass drum, the ultra-bitter sneer of the violin's E-string. This continues from 7 to 12 p. m., without interruption. It is Chinese music, the real article, just imported fresh from Canton. Every few days a new opera is presented, in Chinese, by Chinamen and Chinawomen artists and singers, for a Chinese audience and entirely in the Chinese manner. The following opera may be taken as typical...
That chorus is the vital element of the show. All its girls appear quite talented, and are allowed an opportunity to imitate the principals, sometimes to the principals' benefit. Miss Dawn plays a violin cheerfully, as in the days of The Pink Lady, and vents her acting ability on several skits that besplatter the show. Author Paul Gerard Smith comes out of vaudeville with an itch to thrust satire at his audience. His travesties of The Hairy Ape, Ladies' Night and The Song and Dance Man will work no harm to Eugene O'Neill, Avery Hopwood and George M. Cohan...
mighty Pole attached no higher importance than did Beethoven to the parts for violin and cello, for his Olympian thunders almost completely drowned out the none too insistent playing of Messrs. Salmond and Zimbalist...
...Durrell String Quartet will play the Beethoven Quartet in F. Major this morning at 9 o'clock in the Music Building, open to all members of the University. Mr. Harrison Keller, violinist, will play the Cesear Franck violin sonata at 10 o'clock...
...program included arise of Gluck and Scarlatti and two Bergerettes sung by Miss Myrtle Brown, the Finale of Haydn's Farewell, Symphony, a Suite of Haendel, and a Largo of Corelli by the orchestra alone, a Grave by Humphries and a Canto Amoroso for violin played by Mario Montini accompanied by the orchestra, a Courant by Couperin for flute, cello, and harpsichord, La Gallina by Merula for oboe, bassoon and harpsichord and Concertos by Dall' Abaco and Bach for harpsichord, organ and orchestra...