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...first half of the program will be broadcasted direct from the ball by WEEI. Violin and xylophone solos by P. B. Diederich '28 and S. W. Burbank '29, respectively, will feature the program, which is as follows: Our Director Bigelow Dornroeschen Tohaikovsky Prelude to "Le-Deluge" String Orchestra Saint Saens Paul B. Diederich, '28, Violin soloist Selection from "The Student Prince" by Romberg. Sobre Las Oias Rosas Xylophone Solo Poet and Peasant Suppe Caprice Huerter Scott W. Burbank, '29 March "Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa Volga Boatman's Song ATT. Jacchua Harvard Marches Fair Harvard...
After the Concert there will be a reception for the members of the Society. The Concord program was as follows: 1. Our Director Bigelow 2. Dornroeschen Tchaikovsky 3. Prelude to "Le Deluge" String Orchestra P. B. Diederick '28, Violin Soloist Saint Saens 4. Hungerian March (Rakoczy) Berloiz Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Grieg Arthur A. Landers, '28, Pianist Conducted by Miss Leginska 5. Xylophone Solo Poet and Peasant Suppe Caprice Huerter S. W. Burbank '29 6. March "Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa 7. Selections from "Student Prince" Romberg 8. Fair Harvard
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...
...peculiar responsibility rests upon these four: to match the tradition of Kneisel, to play upon the instruments of Antonio Stradivari. Felix M. Warburg provided each one with a precious Stradivari, a taut, light, sensitive, beautiful creature that quivers to the slightest vibration of a 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...
...organ prelude to the last lingering vibration of Soloist Rich's violin the audience were silent, as 15,000 disembodied spirits straining for the trumpet call of the angels. They heard the famed Wanamaker instruments, Stradivari, Guarnarius, Quadagnini, Montaguana, Gofriller . . . played in massed unison by the great string quartets of the U. S. - Flonzaley, Pro Arte, Lenox, Vertchamp, with four bass viols in accompaniment. Under Mr. Rich's direction the musicians poured harmonies and melodies from Purcell's Suite in C Major. Into the rare acoustic treasuries of the huge auditorium later sounded the Mozart D Major...