Word: violining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group of Belgian musicians, led by Ysaÿe's lifelong friend and former pupil, Queen Mother Elisabeth of Belgium, founded the Concours International Eugene Ysaÿe. To Brussels, with fiddle cases under their arms, flocked contestants from 26 nations, eager to try for the bantamweight violin championship of the world. To the surprise of all, the lion's share of honors went to five young Soviet Russians...
BEETHOVEN : TRIPLE CONCERTO IN C MAJOR FOR VIOLIN, CELLO, PIANO & ORCHESTRA (Vienna Philharmonic, Felix Weingartner conducting, with Richard Odnoposoff, Stefan Auber and Angelica Morales; Columbia: 9 sides). Second-rate Beethoven, with only fair-to-middling performance from the soloists. But the recording of this rarely performed piece will interest Beethoven enthusiasts...
CESAR FRANCK: SONATA FOR VIOLIN & PIANO (Jascha Heifetz and Arthur Rubinstein; Victor: 6 sides). Polished performance by a perfectly matched pair of virtuosos...
BRAHMS: SONATA No. 3, IN D MINOR. FOR VIOLIN & PIANO (Joseph Szigeti and Egon Petri; Columbia: 6 sides). An unbeatable sonata team plays a great and proverbially difficult work superbly...
...students, himself teaches some of them how to play the fiddle. Not all are children; mothers and fathers come for lessons too. The school's youngest pupil is three, its oldest 49. Fees for lessons range from 50? to $2. Children under ten pay $1 for a piano, violin or cello lesson, and a class in musical theory is thrown in for nothing. Adults pay $2. Actually these fees cover only one-third the cost of the lessons. Another third comes from the school's endowment fund; a final third is raised by public subscription. For specially talented...