Word: violiniste
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...Light & Coke Co., sounded an A on his oboe. During the noisy tuning up several of the amateurs nervously knocked the music off their racks. But once under way they traversed bravely the technical difficulties of a Bach Chorale and Fugue, of Brahms's great Fourth Symphony. Violinist Amy Neill, wife of Lawyer Avern Scolnik who fiddled in the orchestra, soloed so expertly that critics complained sincerely about her playing so seldom in public. Wives and families of the players applauded so persistently that portly Conductor Clarence Evans got some real exercise bowing. But in all Orchestra Hall that...
...dance tunes and the German folk songs which Johannes learned to please his father crept into the music he wrote for 50 years to follow. But it was his amazing piano repertory, compositions of his own that he had tucked away, which so impressed Eduard Remenyi. the gypsy violinist, that he engaged young Brahms to be his accompanist, introduced him to potent Violinist Joseph Joachim. Remenyi taught Brahms to love Hungarian dances. Joachim brought him to the attention of Composer Robert Schumann who just had time before his mental collapse to publicize the young Hamburger as the coming great composer...
...Tsarina of Russia. Conductor Walter Damrosch, who likes to dress up, was impressively pontifical as the Abbe Franz Liszt. Jascha Heifetz was Johann Strauss, conducting the orchestra with his violin bow and fid- dling as the spirit moved him. Piano-Maker Theodore Steinway tried to impersonate bigheaded Richard Wagner. Violinist Albert Spalding caused a momentary stir when he came before the court and said: "I, Paganini, am not dead." He played none too well, and when Soprano Frieda Hempel did her old Jenny Lind act, she sang off pitch. But nobody minded, especially when Soprano Bori came forward. Soprano Bori...
...Manhattan last week arrived bristly haired, professional Violinist Adolf Busch bringing to the U. S. for the first time his famed Busch Quartet and his young protege Pianist Rudolf Serkin. Day before they landed came news that Busch, like many another German musician, had found Adolf Hitler's government more than he could stomach. Busch had been engaged for Brahms centennial concerts in Hamburg this month, but Pianist Serkin, a Jew, was not to be allowed to play. Violinist Busch withdrew...
...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 eloquent in itself...