Word: violining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Critic George Jean Nathan, Photographer Arnold Genthe, dozens of others. Starting with an idea and an empty room six weeks ago the Academy now boasts nearly 50 pupils, most of them bartering their services as typists, scrubwomen, carpenters or models for lessons in painting, drawing, sculpture, toe dancing, tango, violin, piano, singing...
...taken. In the U. S. Spalding found that it was a handicap to be the handsome, athletic-looking son of a rich U. S. sporting-goods manufacturer. Audiences, he said, seemed to expect him to come on the platform in a baseball suit. Albert Spalding packed up his violin, went to Russia, made his name there. But throughout their careers Spalding and Gabrilowitsch have had one rare quality in common: no amount of success has spoiled their selfless, unaffected devotion to music...
This winter Spalding & Gabrilowitsch have twice chosen to combine their talents, to play sonatas for the piano and violin which most musicians either neglect or use to exhibit their individual virtuosity. Last week Manhattan's Town Hall filled quickly and completely to hear the team play Brahms's A Major Sonata, Mozart's B Flat Sonata, and Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata (socalled because Beethoven dedicated it to Rodolphe Kreutzer, a French violinist who never took the trouble to play it). Throughout the program the two submerged their personalities to make music that was perfectly balanced, completely...
Alceo Dossena had a good apprenticeship for his profession. He was born in 1878 in Cremona, hometown of the great Violin Maker Stradivari, and apprenticed to a marble mason. With his master he worked for years restoring the balustrades and ornaments of local churches in Cremona, Piacenza, Parma-restorations that not only copied the details but imitated the patina of nearby originals. Soon he was restoring not only marble but bronze, terra cotta and wood...
...Ottokar Brandt (Siegfried Rumann of Grand Hotel), a great bear of a man whose crippled left arm once played a gifted violin, has taught his daughter all he knows of music. Now she must go to Vienna. During the midyear vacation a scholarship is vacated. It may be Elsa's chance. When she fails to get it she enlists the sympathy and warm admiration of Harry Conway. They fall in love, although they try to control it. "It's surprising," says Elsa, with a wry twist of the mouth, "the things we can control...