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...however, Dr. Richards were able to try out this very experiment, he would discover the "blind" violinist surrounded by as many appreciative listeners as there would be room for within earshot of his G string...
Paul Whiteman weighs 248 Ib. His father was director of music in the Denver public schools, his mother sang in a Den ver choir. He got his start in Santa Barbara playing the violin and wearing a funny hat. After a tour of Africa with a string quartet, he worked in Tait's restaurant in San Francisco, was fired for not knowing jazz. He started a band of his own, borrowed money enough to take his men east where he got a job in the Ambassador Hotel, Atlantic City. His pianist, Ferdie Grofe, a brilliant technical musician, helped...
Although this is only a new application of an old idea it opens startling new music fields. By changing the glass disc the instrument may be made to emulate any known string or wind instrument. Thus, it is possible to foresee a symphony orchestra made up of a hundred Hardy & Brown devices keyed to simulate violins, piccolo-flutes, oboes. French horns...
Mozart's Quartet in B Flat by the Lener String Quartet of Budapest (Columbia, $6) - This is called the "Hunting Quartet" because a theme in the first movement resembles a hunter's horn. The Adagio, tranquil and in no way suggestive of the skelter of the field, is played by the Leners with expert tenderness...
...other changes in the third boat involved M. R. Brownell, Jr. '30 and R. I. McKesson '31, who swapped seats with the result that McKesson is now stroking the third string oarsmen and Brownell is at number...