Word: violins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...creation of a little grey-maned, Dutch-born music teacher named Ben Stad. Conductor Stad, 59, came to the U.S. in 1908, eventually founded Philadelphia's Institute of Musical Art. Some 20 years ago, it occurred to him that modern instruments like the piano and violin were not suited to the music written for harpsichord and viole d'amour during the 17th and 18th Centuries. This idea was the beginning of Ben Stad's unique Society...
...kitchen. Dinner engagements are booked weeks in advance. Bob Simpson is selling his single seat at the symphony now that he has met a very attractive someone, frequently a Cowie guest. Arab Kingsley has been humming concertos and tearing telephone books in half looking forward to his violin sessions interrupted momentarily by disbursing afloat...
Fingerboards and Filters. The emiriton. which produces tones much like those of the violin, cello, bassoon, clarinet and oboe, has several advantages over previous electro-musical instruments (such as the theremin). Because it is played by running one finger up and down a free fingerboard, tones are produced strictly by finesse of touch, not by mechanical means. Because it is a single-voiced instrument that does not play chords, each instrument in the ensemble is a personality, like each instrument in a string quartet, and lends itself to a great variety of color and volume...
...days at Lwow University. There Karski had belonged to an association that lectured to the peasants on literature, history, hygiene. The peasants were mildly interested in Karski's lectures. But they loved the intense, gifted, frail young high-school student who went with him and played the violin after his talk. This was Dziepatowski. He was now an executioner for the underground...
...Freedom. In York, Pa., the City Council decided that smoking is no longer a waste of "good eating tobacco" and violin-fiddling no longer "debauched the morals of the young," planned to legalize both...