Word: violining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fritz Kreisler, dean of all great violinists, is to give a recital on Sunday afternoon at 3.30 in Symphony Hall. The program includes Schumann's Fantasy in C major, Opus 131, (which Mr. Kreisler has been editing for several years), Bach's Sonata in G minor for violin alone, the second movement of Paganini's Second Concerto, and the Fantasy on Russian themes of Rimsky-Korsakov, arranged by Kreisler...
...First Violin...
...Second Violin...
...after they had been rehearsed in sections. Conductor Erno ("Ernie") Rapée not only led the biggest symphonic orchestra ever assembled in Madison Square Garden through the 1812 and a Strauss waltz, but also performed the feat of arranging for it a trio Tchaikovsky originally wrote for piano, violin and cello...
Though musically the violin is by all odds the most important stringed instrument, there have been no Steinways of the fiddle trade since Stradivarius and Amati. Of course, the reason is that a good violin never wears, out. Improving with age, they are traded like works of art. What few fine U. S. violins are made today are the product of independent craftsmen like Manhattan's Paulus Pilat, who turns out ten instruments per year at $500 to $750 each...