Word: violins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Milwaukee-born Bravig Imbs had lived a life as full of joie de vivre as a French novel. He financed two years at Dartmouth by playing his violin, lecturing to women's clubs, butlering for a professor. He took a cattle boat to Europe in 1925, soon mingled with fun-loving expatriates in Montparnasse, wrote many poems, several books (Confessions of Another Young Man, The Professor's Wife, etc.), joined the cultural circle of Gertrude Stein, Elliot Paul, James Joyce, George Antheil. When his writing failed to feed him, he lectured or fiddled in cafes. Wrote Miss Stein...
...Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major (Joseph Szigeti and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 9 sides); Symphony No. 1 in C Minor (Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor, 10 sides). Szigeti plays Brahms's bombastic music straight, while Conductor Stokowski plays it pretentiously. Szigeti's concerto is a better performance, but Stokowski's symphony is more clearly recorded on unbreakable vinylite...
...years ago when they were both billed to sing and play at a dinner in a conservative English club. They began writing songs which never got any further than the three-piece ladies' band (violin, viola and piano) which...
...recorded, among other "Americana," glossy Negro spirituals and Irving Berlin's White Christmas. His second Decca album, out this month (Gershwin, arranged by Jascha Heifetz; Decca, 8 sides), contained Porgy and Bess songs and three Gershwin preludes, brilliantined up with double stops and Heifetz glissandi. Although the violin is probably the instrument least suited for jazz solos, Decca announced that Heifetz' next album will be Hexapoda-"five studies in Jitteroptera." Said Decca's President Jack Kapp: "If Bing can sing Ave Maria, why can't Heifetz do boogie-woogie...
Bach: Sonata in E for Violin and Harpsichord (Yehudi Menuhin and Wanda Landowska; Victor, 6 sides). Two stars dazzle in some of Bach's best. Performance: good...