Word: violining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...popularity contests. To be seen and heard in Minneapolis were the most famed virtuosos of fretted instrumentalism, some of them playing on instruments worth thousands of dollars. Tenor Banjoist Albert Bellson played, for the first time anywhere, Bach's famed Chaconne, which is ordinarily a sombre, magnificent violin showpiece. Rev. Adam F. Hunkler, O.S.B., self-taught Catholic priest, played the five-string finger banjo on the same program with that maestro known to all Hawaiian guitarists, Sophocles Papas. Finally there was "the world's greatest mandolinist," Giuseppe Pettine of Providence, R. I., of whom the official Guild Reporter...
...Wedding March from "Le Coq d'Or"Rimsky-Korsakov *Overture to "Russian and Ludmilla" Glinka Variations on the Austrian National Anthem (from the String Quartet, Op. 76, No. 3 Haydn "Briar Rose," Waltz Tchaikovsky Orgy of the Spirits from the Oriental Suite, "Noure and Anitra" Hynsky *"Dreams" Wagner Violin Solo: Julius Theodorowicz *March Slave Tchaikovsky Hans Wiener and Dance Group with Orchestra *"La Valse" Ravel *Roumanian Rhapsody Enesco Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
...Entrance of the Gladiators"Fucik *Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendolssohu *Prelude in C-sharp minor Rachmaninoff *Fantasia. "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagnt *Ballet Suite. "La Source" Delibes Scarf Dance--Love Scene Variation--Circassian Dance *Meditation from "Thais" Massenet Violin solo: Julius Theodorowicz *Prelude to "The Mastersingers of Nuremburg" Wagner *"Roberta," Selection Kern *"Espana' 'Waltzes Waldteufel *"Procession of the Sardar" Ippolitov-Ivanov Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
Gertrude Michael is a Talladega, Ala. girl who used to run a radio station in her hometown, giving household hints and calisthenics in the morning, economic lectures and piano recitals in the afternoon and in the evening singing ballads and playing the violin. She had equipped herself for this career by studies at University of Alabama and Converse College. Later she got into enough Broadway plays to inter est M-G-M in testing her and arrived in Hollywood with two suitcases, expecting to stay a fortnight. She has never been back, either to Broadway or Talladega...
...each day this week is to be heard Grieg's "Sonata in C Minor", piano and violin played by Serge Rachmaninoff and Fritz Kreisler...