Word: violining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock--Concert. Sonata for Pianoforte and Violin. Frank W. Ramseyer, Jr., and Josephine Baldwin Bates, violinist, in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building...
...Brussels, violin-playing U. S. Ambassador Dave Hennen Morris presented his credentials to King Albert, had a chat with Queen Elisabeth, a fellow-fiddler. Few days before L'Eventail, Brussels socialite weekly, had commented: "Mr. Morris on getting off the train that brought him to Brussels was seen to be carrying a violin case. Everyone noticed it and everyone was favorably impressed. This diplomat is a musician and he must be passionately fond of music to carry his violin himself. We like diplomats who are artists...
...even without one he has to bend like a melon rind to get level with his men. When he spreads his arms an entire orchestra seems to fall under the shadow of his wings. For a lush string passage one arm will suddenly take the form of a violin while he plays on it with the other. He stands erect for staccato effects, hunches his head forward and fairly plucks the quick, short notes from out the instruments. He takes his crescendoes with hair and coat tails flying...
...which cast a bloody light on certain early Mormon doings. In filming Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's thriller, Fox was evidently so concerned about injuring Mormon feelings that an entirely new and different story is told. Only the old rooms in Baker Street, the pipe, tweed cap and violin of sagacious Sherlock Holmes remain unaltered. New film Holmes is Reginald Owen, a twangy-voiced high comedian who gave theatregoers much pleasure in The Play's the Thing and Petticoat Influence...
...have been written. The D Minor Concerto failed at its first hearing, partly because Brahms played the piano part himself more vigorously than accurately. It took Clara Schumann, who played it the length & breadth of Europe, to make it known for what it was worth. The premiere of the Violin Concerto was coolly received. It was lacking in fireworks and Brahms, who conducted it, supplied a diversion by going on stage with his suspenders unfastened. In Boston where the recent Brahms concerts were sold out to the doors and Beacon Hill ladies stamped their feet in approval. Critic Philip Hale...