Word: violiniste
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...left a military band to marry. Sembrich, christened Praxede Marcelline Kochanska, was plopped up on a piano bench at the age of four. At six she was studying the violin. At twelve she played at local dances in the family quartet. She was the pianist, her brother the first violinist, her mother the second, her father the cellist. When she nodded at the keyboard her father roused her with a tap on the shoulder with his cello bow. Because the family was too poor to buy their music, they borrowed it. And often after playing until midnight 12-year...
Three recitals by distinguished artists are to be heard in Boston during the next few weeks. Albert Spalding, the noted violinist, is presenting at Jordan Hall on Saturday afternoon, January 19, a program consisting of selections from both old and new composers, a range from Bach to Ravel. On Sunday afternoon, January 20, Arthur Schnabel, eminent pianist, is to be heard at Symphony Hall playing sonatas of Schubert, Mozart, and Becthoven. The Dutch pianist, Jan Smeterlin will appear on Friday evening, February 1, at Jordan Hall...
...reception by the League of Composers, long hospitable to all his efforts. Before he returns to Europe in April Stravinsky will have conducted big orchestras in Milwaukee, Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Boston. Other cities will hear him as a pianist when he plays transcriptions of his works with Violinist Samuel Dushkin...
...opportune also to mention at this time the concerts of Albert Spalding and Arthur Schnabel on January 19 and 20 respectively. Both are widely known -- Mr. Spalding as an eminent violinist, and Mr. Schnabel as a notable pianist whose interpretation of Beethoven is supreme. The recital of the former is to be at Jordan Hall, and that of the latter at Symphony Hall...
...four time because a nervous little man named Johann Strauss had started writing irresistible waltz tunes. He conducted his own compositions while he fiddled bewitchingly at the head of his band. If Johann Strauss fathered the Viennese waltz, his son Johann II (Blue Danube), who was also an expert violinist-conductor, reared it to an historic state of world-wide popularity...