Word: violining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Admirers of Jascha Heifetz will have the unusual privilege of hearing him play two full violin concertos on the same program, either this afternoon or tomorrow evening...
Malcolm H. Holmes '28, conductor of the Pierian Sodality, will play the violin accompanied on the piano by Edward Ballantine '07, associate profesor of Music...
...regimental physician, and Sibelius was born at Tavastehus, a small town in the interior of Finland. He was just an ordinary little boy when he began to study the piano at the age of nine, but he started to compose almost immediately. At 15 he took up the violin, with the local military bandmaster as instructor. In his mature years he confessed to an early ambition to become a great violinist. The respectable Sibelius family, however, considered a career as a musician too precarious. They suggested law, and for a time the young composer dutifully pegged away at the University...
...Vienna, studied with Carl Goldmark and Robert Fuchs, met Brahms who complimented him on his work. When he returned to Finland after an absence of three years, the young man of 27 was already regarded as a figure of national consequence. After a few years of teaching composition and violin at the Musical Institute of Helsingfors he was awarded the grant that enabled him to devote the remainder of his life exclusively to composition. When he was younger Sibelius traveled much in Germany, France and Italy, composed several of his works away from home. In 1914 he visited...
Last August, after 20-year-old Yehudi Menuhin announced he would give Robert Schumann's "lost" violin concerto its world premiere (TIME Aug. 23), the German Government announced it would pre-empt the initial hearing for its official anniversary Reichskultürkammer in Berlin. In Richmond, Va. last fortnight, Violinist Menuhin listened to a short-wave broadcast of Aryan George Kulenkampff's interpretation of the concerto, praised the German as "a violinist of the first rank" regretted that "the edition played was not the original." Father Moshe Menuhin was less complacent: "It was Yehudi who discovered it. ... Kulenkampff...