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...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Caponsacchi, by NBC Symphony's First Violist Carleton Cooley, Saint-Saëns' Suite Algérienne, Lalo's Le Roi d'Ys Overture, Johann Strauss's Voices of Spring. Conductor: Frank Black...
Boston Symphony (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Beethoven's Egmont Overture, Berlioz' Harold in Italy. Soloist: Violist Jascha Veissi. Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Arturo Toscanini opens his tenth season conducting Berlioz' Harold in Italy, Wagner's A Faust Overture. Soloist: Violist William Primrose...
Like most string quartets, the Paganini has a liberal patron. She is Mrs. William Andrews Clark, widow of the copper-millionaire Senator from Montana. First she engaged Scottish-born Violinist Henri Temianka and Belgian Cellist Robert Maas, then she sent to Brussels for Violist Robert Courte and Violinist Gustave Rosseels. She bought the four Stradivarii, which are insured for $250,000, from a New York dealer. Patroness Clark's quartet has already signed for a Beethoven series at the Library of Congress, and for the opening November concert in Manhattan...
Made to Measure. For "The Primrose," Young Bill Moennig spent a year and a half studying the violist's playing technique, then almost six months shaping and making the viola. Primrose told him: "I want quality with power so that the music will come out without an obvious wrestling match in front of the public." Moennig tried to blend the measurements of a Strad and an Amati, to get the Amati's mellow roundness with the greater brilliance of the Strad...