Word: violins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Grolle will be director; Carl Flesch, head of the violin department; Louis Svecenski, of the Kneisel Quartet, ensemble teacher. A permanent building will be erected in the heart of Mr. Curtis' city...
Before the orchestra started playing, Mr. Schelling explained to his eager audience of boys and girls all about "the fiddles, big and little," that is, the stringed instruments, including the harp, which has the most strings of all. Pictures of the pieces that make a violin were thrown on the screen, and they showed how the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms contributed to its making, but the beauty of its tone came from a fourth kingdom?"the Kingdom of Heaven...
...taps, and Mr. Schelling began to wave his magic baton. First they played Chopin's A Major Polonaise, and you could imagine people dancing to it. Then they played Bach's beautiful Air for G String, and Scipione Guidi, concert master, showed what rich tones could come from a violin...
...first of a series of concerts of chamber music in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall in the Music Building will be given this evening at 8.15 o'clock by the London String Quartet Mr. James Levy, first violin; Mr. Thomas W. Petre, second violin. Mr. H. Waldo Warner, viola; and Mr. C. Warwick. Evans, 'cello...
Sunday afternoon, January 27, in Symphony Hall a concert of pieces for the violin by Efrem Zimbalist, too well known to require comment. He will play the Mendelssohn Concerto, a Brahms Sonata and pieces by Reger and Sarasate. The second concert of the Steinert series...