Word: violining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practical musician, is a virtuoso on the viola. After running away from home at the age of eleven, he earned his own living playing in dance bands, cafés and cinema orchestras. A diligent student, he spent his spare time plowing through courses at the Frankfurt Conservatory, studying violin, viola and composition. In 1915 he became head violinist of the Frankfurt Opera House, rose to the post of conductor. Among German composers his pre-Hitler reputation was second only to that of aging Richard Strauss...
Last week 4,500 Manhattanites paid $12,000 to cram the Metropolitan Opera House while Yehudi Menuhin and his pretty 17-year-old sister Hepzibah played Beethoven's C Minor Sonata for violin and piano. Touching as a brother-sister act, the performance, on its piano side, was far from record-breaking...
...cost of gasoline engines and with greater simplicity. Impatient prophets who interpret this as a sign that automobiles with Diesel engines are close at hand will have to burn while General Motors fiddles, according to Boss Kettering. Said he, opening the new plant: "You would not buy a Stradivarius violin and give it to a man to play in Carnegie Hall the same night. We have got a good fiddle, we know that, but we have got to do a lot of practicing...
...confused orchestration of Manhattan art galleries last week two flute parts and a vigorously bowed violin made lyric music...
...wouldn't put a fellow who wanted to learn to play the violin with a symphony orchestra," he said. "He'd just spell the concert and probably wouldn't get much out of it himself...