Word: virtuoso
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...keeping up with. It is to be regretted, however, that the subject matter in many of the articles strays so far from Cambridge. Thus there are, dealing with a different hemisphere: a noble sonnet "Rhine," a sketch, "The Symphony," whose technique leads one to believe its author a virtuoso with his fingers rather than with his pen; and an excellent Irish story told in the author's very human style...
Among the special soloists who have been engaged to assist at the concerts are Mr. Ben Davies, Mr. Carl Halir, the famous violin virtuoso from Berlin, Miss Lena Little, Mme. Georgine von Januschowsky, soprano of the Imperial Opera Company, Vienna, and last year with the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York, Mr. Martinus Sieveking and Mr. Franz Kneisel, first-violin of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...