Word: violiniste
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...close a concert in Rosario, Argentina, Violinist Mischa Elman played as an encore his own composition "Tango." Wildly the audience demanded to hear it again. Elman declined to repeat, played instead a dozen different encores. Exhausted, he bowed his way off the stage. Up over the footlights and into Elrnan's dressing room swarmed the insistent audience. Seizing the violinist, they dragged him back on the stage, pleaded until he repeated "Tango...
Miss Frederick is cast as an amiable widow called Jane Seymour. Her long-lost suitor, the itinerant violinist, is labeled Peter Stuyvesant. Inept are Widow Seymour's efforts to disentangle her son from the siren snares of a "voluptuous" and "continental" woman with whom Violinist Stuyvesant was once embroiled. There is a teetotaling housekeeper who gets drunk, and a happy ending. Sample comedy, when the addle-headed housekeeper hears the name of a famed sexologist mentioned: "If that Mr. Havelock Ellis comes around here, I'll slam the door in his face...
Featuring selections by the "Pyorrhean Sorority" and Malcolm Holmes, violinist, the annual Class Day Spread Wednesday evening is slated to be both amusing and interesting. Another specialty of the evening is to be a "Subway Scene in Pantomime, With Apologies", by George R. Shaw...
...Music degrees, the Curtis's first, went to Hofmann's friend Leopold Godowsky and to Marcella Sembrich. The Curtis's plump, frizzy-haired little vocal professor sat on the platform and beamed when Director Hofmann reminded the audience that she was an accomplished pianist and violinist before she became the Metropolitan Opera's prize coloratura. The day Mrs. Bok proudly distributed diplomas her son Curtis was elected president of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, successor to the late Alexander Van Rensselaer. Young Curtis Bok is quiet, well-liked. And he shares with Conductor Leopold Stokowski a passion...
...full days. Soviet Russia was having its first big music festival. Blustery Red music was played in the Tsar's old palace at Detskoye Selo, in the old Mariinsky Theatre, in the Philharmoniya concert hall and in the famed old opera house. Special excitement came when Violinist Efrem Zimbalist marked his homecoming by soloing in the Glazunov Concerto. But the festival's high mark was the Opera's performance of Prince Igor, because the festival was given to commemorate the birthday centenary of Prince Igor's composer- Alexander Porfirievitch Borodin. Soviets approve Borodin's music...