Word: zimbalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week Manhattan music lovers gawped and gloated while more than $1,000,000 worth of Strads (violins, violas, cellos: 20 instruments in all) were played at a single Carnegie Hall concert. Noted Violinist Efrem Zimbalist played on his famed Lamoureux (Strads, like Pullman cars, all have individual names). Listeners marveled at the mellow, homogeneous tone quality of the eight glistening, red-gold instruments played by the Musical Art Quartet and the Stradivarius .Quartet of New York, the small string orchestra over which senatorial Walter Damrosch waved a deliberate baton. The occasion for this Stradivarius display was the 200th anniversary...
Last week at the first of six Berkshire concerts to be given during the fortnight, the audience of 5,500-near capacity of the temporary tent-was as impeccable and polite as any in Symphony Hall or Carnegie Hall, included such folk as Violinists Efrem Zimbalist, Albert Spalding, Jacques Gordon, Mrs. E. Parmalee (Alta Rockefeller) Prentice, Dancer Ted Shawn, Mrs. Alvan T. Fuller (wife of Massachusetts' onetime Governor), U. S. Ambassador-at-large Norman Hezekiah Davis, Novelist Owen Johnson, Mrs. Edward S. Harkness and many another social column name. Most of them sat in boxes which were shrewdly placed...
...Torrington, Conn. 13-year-old Minnie Pisanti ran into the street, was killed by an automobile driven by Alma Gluck Zimbalist, soprano wife of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist. Under his oxygen tent at Riverside, Calif. Comedian W. C. Fields (Poppy), fighting pneumonia, was shown a newspaper picture of himself with the caption "Improved." Cracked he: "If I die tonight, they can say I died 'improved...
...Frank Chapman, Gladys Swarthout's husband, went to Englewood, N. J. for a golfing holiday in 1933, spent their time talking musical politics and economy instead. Formally launched last April, the Guild has 115 charter members whose names, accustomed to appear in electric lights, include: Jascha Heifetz, Efrem Zimbalist, Alma Gluck, Lily Pons, Rosa Ponselle, Mischa Elman, Lucrezia Bori, George Gershwin, Grace Moore, Artur Bodanzky, Artur Rodzinski, Fritz Reiner, Paul Whiteman, Deems Taylor, Albert Spalding...
...stands so high for all that is beautiful, pure and true in art as Kreisler should have resorted to such means. . . ." Other fiddlers showed greater comradeship. Yehudi Menuhin called it "one of the most creditable things that Kreisler has ever done." Albert Spalding was not surprised. Efrem Zimbalist had known, had gladly kept the secret all along. Said he: "The violin repertory has been wonderfully enriched by these compositions, and as Kreisler did not think it advisable to say they were his when he wrote them, he had a perfect right to attribute them to any one he pleased...