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Decade ago, Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music sent one of its greenest sprigs, highbrowed Henry Arthur ("Hine") Brown, to the Southwest to stir up sweet sounds. Mr. Brown taught violin at New Mexico College of Agriculture, didn't stir up much until he went to El Paso. Then he waved a stick over the amateurs, and they turned into an orchestra. In five years the symphony, selfsupporting, was coming and pahing with as much assurance as any young outfit in the land...
...with the celebrated, long-faced Sitwell family; to Sister Edith's verses he wrote Faç;ade, his best-known, though least profound, orchestral work. Driving an ambulance, which William Walton has been doing for more than a year, kept him from hearing the world premiere of his violin concerto, written for Jascha Heifetz and played in Cleveland in December 1939. Fortnight ago, his job kept him from another first performance: his Scapino, a Comedy Overture, commissioned by the Chicago Symphony as part of its 50th-anniversary celebration...
Since then Woolf has done more than 300 such interviews. Mussolini, who grieved to him that dictatorship interfered with violin practice, put on a full-dress show to illustrate how he terrified his aides, and winked broadly at Woolf as the last one left. Said Coolidge-a Woolf favorite-"I am afraid I am hard to draw. I think I would be a much better model if I raised whiskers like one of the Smith Brothers...
...real name: Lionel Canegata. Canada was born of West Indian parents in Manhattan's seamy San Juan Hill district (the Sixties near the Hudson). As a boy he got a reputation for licking toughs, including members of a Harlem gang called "the syndicate," and studied the violin under Negro Composer J. Rosamond Johnson. While still in grammar school, Canada ran away from home, became a stable boy and jockey in Canada, moved back to Harlem after a couple of years. He won 90 out of 100 amateur fights and the national amateur lightweight title, turned...
...Crimson Concert Hall-Tschaikowsky: Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique); Bach: Violin Concerto In D Minor...