Word: violins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Modern music will be dominant tonight in the third concert of the Whiting Expositions of Chamber Music. Mr. Arthur Whiting himself will play the pianoforte, assisted by Mr. John Corigliano on the violin, and Mr. Frederick von Amburgh on the clarinet...
...three parts. The Brahms Sonata in E-flat for clarinet and piano is said to be Brahms' favorite among all his chamber music. It is of several piano-clarinet pieces which the composer wrote for and dedicated to Carl Muhlfeldt, a celebrated clarinet player. The Cesar Franck Sonata for violin and piano is one of the most effective modern pieces written for that combination...
...Edsall says: "When reason is applied to Religion, there is naturally discord. It is as if one tried to play a violin with a saw." Now there is considerably more than discord. Such treatment inevitably results in the ruin of the violin: Whereas the saw is quite unharmed...
...fear that I shall have to modify my rather too vigorous remarks on Mr. Edsall's excellent simile of the violin and the saw. If you play your violin with a saw, your violin will not be completely spoiled. Its strings may be broken; but they are easily replaced, and your violin may even be improved by the process. But it will never be exactly the same as it was before. EDWARD SCHOUTEN ROBINSON...
...such conflict; there never can be, for Science and Religion have no inter-relation. Man's scientific instrument is his reason; his religious instrument is his mystical power. When reason is applied to Religion, there is naturally discord. It is as if one tried to play a violin with a saw. But that is enough of generalizations on this point; now for particulars. "How," you say, "can a man who agrees with scientific thinking agree also with the idea of the Virgin Birth, which Science and experience show to be impossible?" If you speak thus, you forget another part...