Word: zimbalist
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...Baker: "Together with Delanos, Burdens, Mackays, Wideners, Waterburys, Cromwells and many another Manhattan society family, my husband and I last week attended a 'circus party' given for Violinist and Mrs. Paul Kochanski by Mr. and Mrs. William May Wright in their apartment. Walter Damrosch, Josef Stransky, Efrem Zimbalist and George Gershwin took turns leading 'the world's greatest circus band.' Munching hot dogs and popcorn, sipping pink lemonade, we strolled among sideshow booths -'The Sword Swallower,' 'The Circassian Beauty,' 'The Fire-eater,' 'Mysteria, The World's Greatest...
Among musicians it is generally agreed that string chamber music is the highest, purest medium of expression. The wealthy patrons of art have taken heed: Felix M. Warburg, Clarence H. Mackay, James P. Warburg, Mrs. Robert Bliss, Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, Mrs. Alma Gluck Zimbalist. So, in Manhattan's Aeolian Hall, last week, a new quartet was heard, enthusiastically applauded for a lovely rendition of the Mozart C Major, Schubert D Minor-the Musical Art Quartet. Three of the artists are pupils of Franz Kneisel:-Sascha Jacobsen, Bernard Ocko, Louis Kaufman; one, Marie Roemaet-Rosanov, cellist, pupil...
...string, laughs, cries, pleads, cajoles to the mood and art of the musician. These are not things. They are temperaments, identified by their own names for centuries, treasured, loved by the men who have been fortunate to know their richness. The "Titian" was once owned by Efrem Zimbalist. The "Viola Mac Donald" was born in 1701. "La Belle Blondine," the cello that was heard in Spain, was bundled off in silks and felts to the U. S. in return for a fabulous sum of money. The fourth, a "Red" Stradivari, was just recently released from a physician's care...
...citizen. By birth Hungarian, I became in 1883 a Russian subject, in 1895 hereditary Russian nobleman, and in 1903 Russian State Councilor. As soloist to the Tsar, I succeeded the great composer-violinist Wieniaw-ski, but my chief pride is that my pupils have included Elman, Zimbalist, Heifetz. I have lived in the U. S. since 1918, following the Russian Revolution...
...Cleveland Orchestra, Nikolai Sokolov, conductor, will give 65 concerts beginning Oct. 21. Among the soloists will be Elsa Alsen, Alfred Cortot, Lucrezia Bori, Ruth Breton, John Charles Thomas, Respighi, Josef Szigeti, Dusolina Giannini, Efrem Zimbalist, Harold Bauer...