Word: violiniste
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...public will support it, or if a backer can be found, the Woman's National Symphony Orchestra plans to be a permanent, touring organization. Conductor Leginska will pack up her spare frock-coat then. Violinist Eileen Mayo will abandon the schooner aboard which she lives. Horn-playing Suzanne Howitt will leave the women's club of Teaneck, N. J. Eight other ladies will shoulder their double-basses, pretty Doris Smith her colossal tuba...
...Notable exceptions are the few women who play in major U. S. orchestras. Lady harpists preponderate. There are two in Cleveland's orchestra, one each in the big orchestras in Detroit, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Manhattan. . The San Francisco Symphony has three lady violinist?, two lady 'cellists; Minneapolis has a lady violinist; Los Angeles and Cincinnati a lady pianist each: Cleveland a lady viola player. These fortunates get union wages. When the Chicago Woman's Symphony feels pinched, its members play for $5 a week. Leginska and her players gave their services...
Most prodigious of all musical prodigies was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Heifetz Hofmann and Yehudi Menuhin showed a early genius for playing music that others had written but Mozart at four was composing a concerto, spilling ink all over himself. He was not quite six when his father, a Salzburg violinist, bundled him and his sister Nannerl into a coach, started showing them off to the rest of Europe...
...World's Fair (1893). Conductor Theodore Thomas of the drooping mustache was having it play Wagner excerpts new even to Europe. In the panic of 1894 its deficit was only $20,000. Ten years later it built a home of its own, supposed to insure its permanent endowment. Violinist Frederick August Stock, a German of sound musicianship whose very bearing imparted an air of stability, succeeded Thomas as conductor. There were frequent deficits but fat years always managed to care for lean...
Marcia Davenport, daughter of Soprano Alma Gluck, stepdaughter of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, in a notable book published last week tells Mozart's story.* The elder Mozart stalked patrons for his son until he was grown. The family needed money but rings and snuffboxes often paid for 18th Century music. Little, bewigged Mozart sat on the Empress Maria Theresa's ample lap. Once he was permitted to watch Louis XV eat. But with all his genius he never found one large-hearted patron on whom he could depend. He married an amiable, unpractical creature, pregnant or convalescent from childbirth...