Word: violins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Roscoe Platt Conkling-for three weeks every scandal-nosing news cub has leered as he mouthed that name. Mr. Conkling is a roving gas engineer who plays the violin. Mrs. Sidney Erskine Brewster, petite and 26, did not guard the letters he wrote her with discretion. Mr. Brewster, 29, was an aviator, Manhattan scion, grew not to perceive the jest, killed his wife as she was dressing for dinner clad only in her chemise, killed himself. What editor or printer's devil in the U. S. does not know that? But what editor asked: "Who is Roscoe Platt Conkling...
Featured at the Pops tonight will be the Ave Maria of Schubert Wilhelm for violin, harp, organ and strings. The complete program follows: Entrance of the Guests into the Wart burg, "Tannhauser" Wagner Evening in Venice Thomas Evening in Venice Dunham Fantasia, "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens Suite from "Carnaval" Schumann Preamble Pierrot Chopin Reconnaissance Sphinxes Ave Maria Schubert-Wilhelmj (Solo Violin, Harp, Organ, and Strings) Guitarre Moskovski Irish Rhapsody Herbert Dance of the Hours from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli Humoresque Dvorak Waltz, "Girls of Baden" Komzak
While a ten-year-old boy played on a cornet, they elected a patron saint-Benjamin Franklin-even though the printers and the Saturday Evening Post already have his memory enshrined. Franklin played on the violin and guitar, composed a few conventional songs, and invented a long-obsolete musical instrument, the "armonica."* The musical chambermen found these facts decisive...
Tonight is the annual request night at the Pops. The program follows: Introduction to set III, "Lohengrin" Wagner Waltz "on the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss Largo Handel (Solo Violin, Harp, Organ and Strings) Fantasia, "Fedora" Giordano Finale of "Scheherazade" Rimsky-Korsakov Festival at Bagdad. The Sea The Ship goes to Pieces against a form Surmounted by a Bronze Warrior Conclusion Deep River Arranged by Jacchia Indian Dirge Seldel Ouverture Solennolle, "1812" Tchaikovsky Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt Ave Maria Schubert-Wilhelmj Pomp and Circumstance Elgar Encores: Song of the Volga Bargemen Arranged by Jacchia Kammenoi Ostrow (Reve Angelique) Rubinstein Flight...
Sunday brings the last of the Pops Sunday programs. Tchaikovsky will be featured. The Saturday program is of the usual sort, with classic and popular music in a balanced nation. The program for Saturday follows: March, "El Capitan" Sousa Overture to, "Orpheus" Offenbach Largo from "Xerxes" Handel (Solo Violin, Harp, Organ and Strings) Fantasia, "Il Trovatore" Verdi Marche Slave Tchaikovsky Legend Holy Prelude in D-flat Glazonnov-Jacchia Overture to "Rienzi" Wagner Polovtsian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin Berceuse from "Jocelyn" Godard (Solo 'Cello--Jacobus Langendoen) Waltz, "Espana" Waldteufel