Word: violining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James Madison was still living, New York State was about to abolish slavery, passenger railroads were about to be realized when Septimus Winner was born in Philadelphia in 1827. Joseph Winner, his father, made violins and Septimus studied music almost from the cradle. "Sep" got out of the Philadelphia High School at 20, began to give lessons on the banjo, guitar and violin, and married a watchman's daughter named Hannah Guyer. He played at balls and parades, was a member of the Philadelphia Brass Band. Hit by the hard times, he wrote in his diary: "Delightful...
...Marche "Lorraine" Ganne *Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolai *Minuet (for strings) Boccherini *"Carmen" Fantasia Bizet *"La Source," Ballet Suite Delibes Scarf Dance--Love Scene--Variation Circassian Dance *Mediation from "Thias" Massenet Solo Violin: Julius Theodorowicz *Overture to "Rienzi" Wagner *Victor Herbert Favorites Arranged by Sanford *Prelude in C-sharp minor Rachmaninoff *Cheyenne Indian War Dance Skilton...
...Mischakoff, 42, seems cut out for a concertmaster. He was such a fine violinist at the Imperial Conservatory in St. Petersburg that, after the Revolution, he won a professorship to the Government Conservatory. He was only 24 when the Moscow 'Grand Opera asked him to be its first violin. Two years later he lit out of Russia, went to Manhattan, placed first in a contest of 500 violinists and got a chance to solo with the Philharmonic. Walter Damrosch made Mischakoff concertmaster of the New York Symphony, now defunct. Stokowski took him to Philadelphia, whence Frederick Stock...
Music is real, music is earnest to Mischa Mischakoff. He teaches 22 pupils at the American Conservatory of Music, runs his own string quartet. He plays the piano almost as well as the violin. Students dread Mischakoff's caustic tongue but know that, at parties, he is a good fellow. A bachelor, he likes swimming, plays ping-pong gladly and badly, appears with hair mussed and bushy, clothes drooping as though too big for him. As a violin trader he is ready, shrewd, almost always wins. He regrets leaving Chicago but says he could not resist...
Friday Evening, May 7 *Marche MilitaireSchubert *"Fingal's Cave," Overture Mendelssohn *Liebestraum Liszt-Herbert Persian Dance Guiraud *By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss *Meditation from "Thais" Massenet Solo violin: Julius Theodorowicz **Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt *Victor Herbert Favorites Arranged by Sanford *Deep River Arranged by Jacchia *"Pomp and Circumstances," March Eigar *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...