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Giving its second concert of the season, the Seventeenth Century Ensemble plays tonight in the Great Hall of the Germanic Museum. The members of the Ensemble are Dorothy Brewster Comstock, first violin; Anna Golden, viola; Robert Gundersen, second violin; Jacobus Langendoen, violoncello; and George Madsen, flute. The program is as follows...
...Greek legend of Daphnis and Chloe, a shepherd and a shepherdess who grew up together and loved inevitably. Violinist Efrem Zimbalist wrote it. Conductor Leopold Stokowski played it first in Philadelphia. In Manhattan next day he put it on the same program with Stravinsky's new violin concerto, a superficial showpiece on which Violinist Samuel Dushkin has the purchased monopoly, also given its U. S. premiere last week, by the Boston Symphony. Few great virtuosi have written important music, particularly for instruments not their own. (Notable exception is Pianist Serge Rachmaninoff who has written extensively for both orchestra...
...playing is an almost ideal blend of emotion and intellect. Boxofficially he has been outdone by Kreisler and Heifetz, in one case by emotional appeal, in the other by technical facility. But Zimbalist's prestige has been slowly, steadily growing since he was 9 and playing first violin in his father's orchestra in the Cossack city of Rostov-on-Don. When he was 12 his mother took him to Petrograd to study with Leopold Auer. Until the time of Auer's death, Zimbalist, an acclaimed virtuoso, went to him for advice...
...interested in marrying again, that it would not be becoming for her to marry a man younger than herself. Finally she surrendered, and there began one of those rare successful marriages between artists. There are two children: Maria Virginia, 16, Efrem, 12. Young Efrem plays the violin capably, but he is having a general education at St. Paul's School now, is registered for Yale...
...Mayor was 7) and grown-ups were of secondary importance. Bob and Ted Maier. 5 and 6-year-old sons of Pianist Maier. played six of the pieces they wrote for Song Cargo (TIME, July 20). Rolf Persinger, 11-year-old son of Teacher Louis Persinger. played the violin in a Mozart program. "My son," announced the teacher of prodigies ahead of time, "is no prodigy." Rolf, a grave, curly-haired child, would like some-time to be a concert artist like his father's pupils, Ruggiero Ricci and Yehudi Menuhin. But he plays now in a sturdy, forthright...