Word: violins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feature of one of the series of regular Sunday evening entertainments which are given throughout the college year by the Union. A. W. Lind '29, violinist, and P. G. Anderson, Boston pianist, will give a joint concert for violin and piano on Sunday evening at 7.15 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra under the leadership of Richard Burgin, guest conductor, in its concert tonight at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre will have as its violin soloist. Albert Spalding...
...Professor Auer was appearing in public-not in his own behalf but to lend importance to the debut of another pupil, Benno Rabinof. Eight years ago he had taken him, a prodigy of Manhattan's lower East Side, taught him the technic taught, of the he violin. As he had been taught, so he played at his debut-the Elgar Concerto & Tschaikovsky's in D with 60 men from the Philharmonic, a Debussy-Paganini-Bethoven group with the piano. His tone was full, his fingers fleet, his ways pleasing. Critics used superlatives to de scribe his virtuosity, bewailed...
...came back into the room carrying an automatic "accordion" which he had purchased at the Mayfair Plaything Stores, in Manhattan. The instrument was beautifully made; it had cost $70, although a cheaper one could have been procured; it contained, completely hidden, a tone chamber made by a Saxony violin maker and a music rol, much like those used in player pianos. "Alf" lifted his "accordion" and showed it to his friends. Then "Alf" began to waggle it, touching the keys. As he squeezed, there were sweets sounds; as he stretched it, it became apparent to some of his listeners that...
...still played with the usual bow, but its qualities in both lyrical tone and resonance are far better adapted to jazz than those of the violin. I have ordered six which ought to be here in a few days, and I have no doubt that in a year or so this instrument will be an essential part of every jazz orchestra in the country...