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Cornelius van Vliet played Saint Saens's The Swan on that big fiddle, the 'cello, and U. Buldrini played his composition, The Grandmother's Dream, on that bigger fiddle, the double bass...
Talcott Parsons, Amherst College; Arthur Pollister, Bates College; Francis B. Cramer, Berkeley Divinity School; Harold F. Carr, Boston Theological School, Elmer W. Grenfell, Bowdoin College; Harold W. Landin, Clark University; Roland A. Gibson, Dartmouth College; D. T. Eaton, Episcopal Theological School; Norman E. Himes, Harvard University; F. M. Bass, International Y. M. C. A.; Frank Shaw, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cara Cook, Mt. Holyoke College; Mary Ruth Schantz, Simmons College; Eva Freeman, Wellesley College; G. B. Appel, Yale University...
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...
...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 and brightness of the violin or the alternate bass strength and majesty and tenor fervor of the violoncello, but preserves a characteristic romantic melancholy throughout...
...instrument, one well fitted to satisfy the highest artistic demands of music. The Society has a band of one hundred expert players, who render in grandiose style arrangements of the compositions of the great composers. Listeners at the Berlin concert commented admiringly on the great, noble tone of the bass mandolins-almost organlike in richness-which moved in stately measures beneath the delicate, tintillating lacework of the smaller instruments...