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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 16 Feb 1933, p. 22

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minus 5viôiristw Wo 15appearingigni a recital Wedneesday, March 8, at the NeW Trier High scbool auditorium under the auspices of thle Winnetka -Music club. "The violinists of fi ction undoubt- e dly' had a basis in fact, lhe goes oen to explain, "but fact bas grown faster than 'fiction and 1 don't believe you wîlfind many of tbis' variety on the I concert platforms today. A, violinist' who .wishes tQ be always at, bis beat cannot waste time with curious ways of dressing and, the development of eccentric mannierisms. The. practice of bis instrument, the eniargement of his repertoire, the -broadening of big mnusiciansip-these are bis problenis, and tbey consume almost- ail of bis time."! Mr. Zimbalist is himself tbe per- fect exemplification of this theory. H~e bas. no -affectations 'that anycne bas ever discovered. His mariner bas pleasant and straigbtforward. He puts ail of bis abundant artistic tem- perament intobis music and rarely Rudoi speaks of bis career and neyer ofbis wýIll pj great successes. He is .modest, even JEvansto shy. Af usicj Zimbalist was graduated f roin the 350 PUP Cons ervatory, the winner of the gold a"rY 21, medai and tbe Rubensteini scbolai- naimit> ship of 12,000 rubles. On November School music centers of iEurope. of musi His American debut wvas made on at 16 October 27, 1911, with, the Boston training Symphony orchestra. 'On this occa- years k sion Zimbalist played the Glazotinow and soo Concerto in A minor for the first burg P time in America. Hfe was immediately He v hailed as an .artist of great menit Japanes Since then bis popularity and fam 19 and oh Reuter, concert /'ianij ,ar as queutlisit ai M irmônic orch<t calied tu tbe.' iimiisrv ofid Tbe need for new vision 'and more efficient, leadersbip in the field, of cburcb. music is expcctedto bring a representative gath.ering to the con- ference. It- is' being sponsored by the Chicago Cburch federation, tbe Evanston Ministeri4l - alliance:, the American Guild and the National As- sociation of Organists, the Choir Di- rectors' guild and.th!e Illinois Fedéra- tion of Music Clubs. Development -of--coëngregational singing, organization of ýa cburcbh cboir program, the place 'of the fine arts hi modem .worship and selection of approriate. organ music for a service are a few *of the miany topics to'be considered. As a prelude to the aftèrnoon meeting tbe A Capetl'la choir- of Northwestern, directed by Prof. Q.1ivçr. Betz will résent a. short_ program. As a musical climax the conférence will conclude with a de,. dicatory recital in the evening at Thorne auditorium on 'McKinflock St. campus. by Hindu Dancers Gxive RaeFuseinating Concert Raeindeed are perforinances ofi -.; 7' >u Iday is tail and graceful and bas od e went a superb rhythniic body wbicb is 'sts ~ ree lxible yet 'supple. His hands and ist. Treevery fingertips are so expressive that ,Issohn prize apparently with little effort be ob- b theHam-tains any effect he strives for.* The a.n b h dances of the East are much more ~iet y besubtie than those of the Occident. ,ation when At the same time they are full of 'tne Kenilwortn club on Sunciay aiter- noon, February 26, in the last of a series of programs sponsored by the North Shoire, Chamber Music associa- tion. Mischakoff 'gave the Dècember recital of the series, which was fol- lowed in 'January by Gaylor'd Browne and Gibson'Walters, duo-violinists'. This quartet j.s believeéd to have the youngest'members of any quartet of its kind in the country.. Mr. Mischa-; koif is 35, Samuel Thaviu of Wril- mette, violinist, is 22; Daniel Saiden' berg, cellist,. is 26, and Milton Preves, viola, is 23. Mr. Thaviu. is the only. one who, is flot, a member of the Chicago Synîphony,. and hie lias ob- tained special permission, from Fred- eric.k Stock to 'Play in Mischakoff's quartet. Mischakoff, forînerly an honor stu- dent under Korgueif, is a gold medal graduate of the Petroegrad Conserva- tory. He was concert master of the Petrograd Symphony orceistra under Albert Coates, also of the New York symphiony and Philadeiphia orchestra. His attainmients as a soloist are of an unusually high order.. Daniel Saidenberg, first cellist of the Chicago Symnpony orchestra, studied %vith Andrae Hekking at the Paris Conservatory and later ivith Salniond iii Atrnr . e won the Nan.np At the concert in Keniilvortlî the. grotup.will play the Beethoven quartet. in D Major, Opus 18, No. 3 and thie Debussv quartet ini G Minor, <)j>u, 10. No. 1. In spitle of the ipresent financial c0tnditions, th.is season lias been olie of the,; most the hiad. 'er f Dny4 Nro. 5, Saint Saens' Icampus of Nortbv cnïic Poemn No . 1 and Miiitary The president and from Suite., "Algeriennie.' 'university sent out ier's Liverture 10 '(iwend Sfirst performance of "Symnphony No. 3 in E. in A Sing Again ............... Protheroe rCha- A Caravan From China e" and eûrnes .......... Stoirey-Smith amar- With a Water Lily .ýl..,.......... Grlegý To the- Clilidren.....Rachmaninoff Serenade... ...........Carpenter

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