Word: violins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What do you thing of his violin, Mr. Ford...
...Department of Music has announced a concert of chamber music to be given in Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building, tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock, by the Lenox String Quartet of New York. Wolfe Wolfinsohn will play first violin, Edwin Ideler second violin, Herbert Borookin viola, and Emmeran Stoeber, 'cello. The quartet will play Beethoven's Quartet, Opus 18, no 4; Hugo Wolf's Serenade and Brahm's Quartet, Opus 51, No. 1, in C Minor...
...Phillips Brooks House Association will hold its customary informal Open House entertainment tomorrow evening from 7 o'clock to 10 o'clock. The program will include Scotch dialect readings by Miss Elizabeth Buchanan, and Negro selections by Miss Mamie Jones, both from the Emerson College of Oratory. Piano recitals, violin solos, a prestidigitation act, and vocal solos complete the program...
...Story begins with the bold, brusque strokes of a poster: the German quarter of New York about 1890; Anton Zwenge, a violin-mender; his mercurial wife; his manual-laboring friends. Frau Zwenge sells sheet music against her husband's will. With the years this business prospers, dislodges him from his workbench, drives him into a corner of her store. It is the same with his old friends. The cigarmaker's sons, the baker's, install machinery. Mass production, money, is the pulse of the city. There are immigrants by the thousand to buy, to push the older immigrants...
...they laugh and talk, it is perceived that they care nothing for music; if they sit silent, it is supposed that they are asleep. The Vice President may have been defamed by people who did not know that, as a youth he was accounted a virtuoso on the violin; that he still solaces his bitter moods with fiddling; that he is a composer...