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...Violin" Causes Confusion...
...going on and on in 1919, with considerably less band, but just as much chance--and spirit. When the first band, an offspring of the University's Banjo and Mandolin Club, developed a lack of clarinets, director and organizer Frederick L. Reynolds '20 wasn't long stymied. He borrowed violins from the dance orchestra to play the missing parts. The stringed additions brought the membership to 45 men. But even by 1929, when there were 60 regular players, improvisation was sometimes necessary. The late Malcolm (Mal) H. Holmes '28, beloved conductor of the band, was pressed into service...
...business. Over the last 15 years, Lieberson has won a reputation for adventurous programming. Soon after his arrival, Columbia released such radical items as Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Bartok's Contrasts, and continued to rack up first recordings of modern masterpieces, e.g., Berg's Violin Concerto, Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky cantata. Gradually, Columbia built a stable of its own name artists (Pianist Rudolf Serkin, Violinist Joseph Szigeti), and created a new source of fine music as a major underwriter of the first Casals Festival. By the time Columbia introduced LP (1948), most of its classical...
...already acquired other convictions. For one thing, he decided that all governments were based on force and that therefore he could have nothing to do with them or their byproducts. He refused to use the railways, telephones or post office; and though he did give English and violin lessons, he took only food or clothing in payment. When the Dutch government asked him to pay his share of school taxes, he said no. Instead, he withdrew his children from school, announced that he was going to teach them himself...
Debussy: Sonata for Violin and Piano (Ginette and Jean Neveu; Angel). A memorial album for Ginette Neveu, the richly talented French violinist who died in an airplane crash five years ago. This piece is one of Debussy's last, and, while not his best, it is full of his special kind of interest. Also on the disk: Chausson's Poeme and Ravel's Tzigane...