Word: viols
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instruments which are eligible in the trials are, for the Banjo Club, the ten or banjo, straight banjo, piano, traps, saxophone, cornet, flute and piccolo, and for the Mandolin Clubs the mandolin, mandola, mando-cello, guitar, violin, cello and base viol...
...music, well adapted to harp and orchestra. Chicagoans listened with interest to this novelty. Sweet were the strains they heard, filled with all the dreaming melancholy, the tender elegance, of another day. Yet they were glad when Conductor Stock led something else. For sentiment cannot long garble truth; the viol, the violin, the pianoforte are all superior to the harp; nor can that gracious instrument any longer move men as it could long ago when jongleurs played, by candlelight and firelight, in shadowy halls...
Kussevitsky broke into music with the bass viol, making both himself and the instrument famous. He played in the Imperial Opera and became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory, his alma mater. Before the War he cruised on the Volga with his orchestra, giving symphony concerts in places unknown to that art. Since the War he has been engaged in Western Europe...
...oddest series of recitals for the U. S. next season will be that of Lionel Tertis. Mr. Tertis is an English musician of some note. His instrument is the viola. Few lay citizens know just what the viola is. It is a member of the viol family, lying midway between the violin and the violoncello. In appearance it is nothing more than a large violin, played in the customary position for the violin. Its tone is very distinctive, deeper, mellower and moodier than that of the violin. Its lack lies in variety. It does not have the alternate darkness...
...story appears in the dramatic section of the Sunday paper that Melinda Mulch, star of the Stupidities of 1923, keeps a canvasback duck in her dressing-room. One day the duck snaps at the leading man; another, it escapes and is discovered in the bass viol; finally it lays an egg and half the company pay bets to the other half. These diverting incidents the public reads intently. The interest thus aroused lures them by tens and dozens to part with $4.40 to see this bizarre Melinda Mulch-the leading lady with a leaning toward canvasback ducks. As a matter...