Word: violining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will strike up the band with the introduction of two new song hits, if everything goes as planned for their Princeton game celebration next Saturday. McCarthy's Boston Commanders will descend on the Gold-Coasters with musical and vocal talent sufficient to satisfy the most scrutinous of epicures. A violin soloist from the Camel Quarter Hour will wield the bow, while Billy Freestone, from the National Broadcasting Artists, and John Truman, will do the vocal artistry. Efforts are being made to secure "Annie's Cousin Fanny," a new hit which has been tremendously popular in the few places where...
...open the Boston Symphony's 54th season Koussevitzky had chosen a rich, compact passacaglia which he had written himself. Bostonians had been curious. Koussevitzky, they knew, was the world's greatest bull-fiddler. He could write sympathetically for the big bass, as Kreisler has written for the violin. For the Symphony's 50th anniversary celebration he contributed an overture. But Boston was apathetic to a composer who at that time preferred to remain anonymous. When last week's audience approved the passacaglia, prouder than Victor the valet was a plump motherly woman who by choice sits...
...dramatically on a piano, Lucienne Boyer sings her Parisian torch songs (TIME, Oct. 8). Vicente Escudero clicks his Spanish heels, cas tanets and fingernails, accompanied by a troupe of wriggling gypsies. A fat, sad-faced Russian named Raphael makes a concertina, scarcely larger than a sausage, whisper like a violin. A magician named De Roze refreshes his audience by pouring, from a pitcher which appears to con tain pure water, small sniffs of whiskey, benedictine, gin, tomato juice or absinthe. Between turns, bland oldtime Nikita Balieff makes impudent speeches in the "English lahngwidge...
Short, rotund, with a greying golliwogg mop of hair, Einstein hates to wear a hat, likes to wander in the country or sail a small boat, plays the violin with concert skill. Last March he was put on the official Nazi black list, deprived of German citizenship. Though he has Swiss citizen ship, Einstein has lived in the U. S. since last autumn, goes each winter to work at the Flexner-directed Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. There he lives in the seclusion he likes, with his comfortable Hausfrau...
Last year, in a series of seven concerts, the Chardon String Quartet presented the complete cycle of Beethoven string quartet. This year their program will be varied-ranging from Haydn to Hindemith. The members of the quartet are: Norbert Lauga, first violin; Clarence Knudson, second violin; Jean Cauhape, viola; Yves Chardon, 'cello, They are all members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...