Word: violins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taught himself to play the piano. In music he prefers Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart, Mozart most of all. He also plays the violin well. A concert is one of the few evening attractions that will entice him out of his flat below his study. He goes to bed early and rises early. Another lure is any opportunity to play his fiddle to the inmates of a Jewish home for the aged. Dr. Einstein is a conservative Jew, a Zionist and, politically, a Socialist. So is his wife, Frau Elsa Einstein...
...clock, in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building on Kirkland Street. This concert will be open, free of charge to officers and students of the University. The following programme will be presented by Mr. Whiting at the pianoforte, assisted by Mr. Manuel Compinsky, violin, and Mr. Alec Compinsky, violoncello...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra. Serge Koussevitzky conducting, will give a concert in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock on Thursday evening. The program will include Bach's Branden-burg Concerts No. 4 in g major for violin, two flutes and string orchestra, Mozart, Symphony in C major, No. 41 "Jupiter"; Debussy, Nocturnes; Satire-Gymnopedies (Orchestrated by Debussey); Ravel, "La Valse" and "Choreo graphic Poem...
...Lind '29 will render a violin solo and J. S. B. Archer '31 will be the tenor soloist for the evening. An exhibition of sleight-of-hand will also be performed by Robert Reinhart '29. Each club in the organization will make two appearances, rendering two selections each time...
John Davison Rockefeller Jr., 55, is 5 ft, 10 in. tall, weighs 170 Ibs., and has six children. As a youngster he broke stone and split wood on his father's estate in Cleveland for 15¢ an hour, also earned 5¢ an hour for practicing on the violin. Now he keeps in condition by playing squash and using gymnasium apparatus. He is one of the quietest men in the public...