Word: violins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...talent at 4, genius (in public) at 6, which was Josef Hofmann's age at his piano debut and Nellie Melba's when she first sang to Melbourne, Australia. Handel was skilled on the organ, Meyerbeer on the piano, Schumann at composing, Kreisler and Joachim on the violin, at 7. Eight-year-old Ottavio Gallo (above) has Bach and Paganini as precedents for his precocity. Chopin, Liszt and Rimsky-Korsakov were first famed as nine-year-olds. Mendelssohn, Schubert, Stravinsky and Boomfield-Zeisler waited until they were 10 before startling the music world; Beethoven, Saint-Saens and Florence...
Tonight's pops concert, to be held in Symphony Hall, will begin at 8:15 o'clock. The program follows: Overture to "The Bronze Horse" Auber Suite from "L'Arleslenne" No.2 Bizet Meditation from "Thais" (Solo violin--Julius Theotlorowicx) Massenet Military March from the "Algerian Suite" Saint-Baens Overture to "Sakuntala" Goldmark Waltzes Brahms-Gericke Largo Handel First Slavonie Dance Dvorak Overture to "La Belle Helene" Offenback Waltz from "Coppelia" Delibes March, "Lorraine" Ganne
...program follows: Duet Second Sonata A. Tataranis and F. Dunning, Radcliffe Address--"Beethoven." Dr. Kellermann Songs--An die Geliebte Vertargenhelt Die Lerche", and "So Jemand sprich; Ich liebe Gott" M. Desmond, Radcliffe Song--"Die Himmel Rubmen en ewigen Elire", and "Seid umschlungen Millionen" A. H. Duhig '10. Violin Solo--Adigio from seventh Sonato Mrs. H. Bosshardt Trio a. Adagio Movement of Fourth Trio. b. Gavotte in F. major Grela Hedlund, violin; E. MacDonald, cello; Z. Bayentz, plano
...fourth concert in Mr. Arthur Whiting series will be presented tonight by Mr. Whiting at the pianoforte, assisted by Mr. Gilbert Ross, violin and Mr. Isadore Bery, hora. they will play Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata and a trip by Brahms...
...octave, heard, or tried to hear, quarter-tones, eighth-tones, three-quarter-tones and sixteenth-tones, and a chromatic scale in which Mr. Carillo claimed he crowded 96 tones into a single octave. At Conductor Stokowski's command, specially trained musicians first produced on the familiar violin, cello and horn, intervals smaller than the semitone. Then new and strange gifts to Orpheus from Mr. Carillo were played: the arpacitera, a mastodonic zither, tuned in 16ths; the octavina, a towering double-bass guitar, capable of eighths; a guitarre adapted to produce quarter-tones...