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Some years ago after a concert by the Flonzaley Quartet in a small U. S. town, a man in the audience rushed up to the second violinist and said: "Beautiful, but not like old times." "What do you mean?" asked the second violinist, bewildered. "You should have heard Mr. Flonzaley himself at the head of this quartet, his bowing, his musical feeling!" The second violinist bowed his head. "Yes, we never could come up to the old man," he murmured...
...second violinist was courteous, but the misguided show-off had blundered. He might as well have told one of the six Floradora girls that not one of them could sing like old Seňora Floradora. For the Flonzaleys are as unrelated as most teams which have a single name.* There was no Mr. Flonzaley who fathered them all. There was instead a Swiss banker, Edward J. deCoppet, who wanted chamber music in the U. S. He appointed Violinist Alfred Pochon to establish a string quartet, and he named it after his Swiss villa, Flonzaley, which translated means "brooklet...
...farewell concerts. Last week, they played what was to be, save for a supplementary benefit to be given March 17, their farewell concert in Manhattan. Two of the players will join a new Stradivarius Quartet, (socalled because they all own Stradivarius instruments) in which Wolfe Wolfinsohn is to be violinist, Gerald Felix Warburg, son of Banker Felix M. Warburg, the 'cellist. The remaining two announced no plans. But their work as a unit is done and, last week, their story was reviewed, their achievement attested...
...Record. When the Flonzaleys first came to the U. S., the sole chamber ensemble of any importance was the quartet of Franz Kneisel, violinist of the Boston Symphony. Kneisel was the pioneer. The Flonzaleys have spread the gospel, making it possible for many to become acquainted with much of the world's most satisfying music. Some 2,000 concerts in 500 U. S. cities, some 500 more in Europe-so have they done what Banker deCoppet meant them to do. For balance, clarity and unity they have been and still remain the best of their kind...
Many a first name has been dropped with fame. Kreisler needs no Fritz for identification, no Mister for his dignity. Neither does Paderewski need his Ignaze Jan, nor Gieseking now his Walter. But ten years ago Kreisler was a celebrated violinist and Paderewski was the Premier of Poland as well as pianist, while Giese king was just a young German whose money had gone in the War and whose profession was music. Swiftly, however, his reputation was made, first with modern music, because in Germany there was a demand for all music that had been made during Wartime, music particularly...