Word: cellist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...musician a candle of his own to snuff at the concert's close. In Cincinnati Conductor Fritz Reiner often exhibits a penchant for the historical.* Last week he attempted to duplicate the first candlelit concert but modernized methods boggled the illusion. The candles were electric, behaved accordingly. 'Cellist Desire Danczowski's flame flickered, threatened to quit before the end; 'Cellist Walter Hermann's balked when it should have gone out. Some screwed their bulbs solemnly, filed quietly off stage. Others strove with lusty, puffing noises to produce more realistic effects. Conductor Reiner "snuffed" his candle...
...orchestra. The new instrument was made especially for Conductor Leopold Stokowski, called a Thereminophone and differed from the better known RCA Theremin in that its tone is controlled by a fingerboard (rather than by waves of the hand), its volume by a pedal. Carl Zeise, regular Philadelphia 'cellist who operates it, is one of several able Theremin soloists-among them Alexandra Stepanoff, who appeared recently in Chicago, George Goldberg and Zenide Hanenfeldt, who teaches some 25 Theremin aspirants in Inventor Leon Theremin's Manhattan studio...
During recent years Spain has sent the U. S. many an expert musician. 'Cellist Pablo Casals and Soprano Lucrezia Bori led the procession. They were followed by Conductor Enrique Fernandez Arbos, guest of the St. Louis Symphony, Guitarist Andrès Segovia, and Dancer Argentina who makes music with her heels and castanets. This year has added two more names, the Aguilar Lutanists (TIME, Dec. 2) and José Iturbi, famed throughout Europe and South America as Spain's greatest pianist...
Gerald Warburg, the cellist of the Quartet, studied at Harvard at one time, and returns with the organization after an extensive European tour...
...Three Americans, three Hungarians, three Russians and an Italian will next year take seats left vacant by ten men in the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. One of them, First 'Cellist Alfred Wallenstein, descends from the famed militarist immortalized by Schiller...