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Modern violin culture in America, 1916
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1YOUNGER SCHOOL OF PLAYERS
3At the present time of writing, we can boast of a larger number of prominent solo-violinists of the younger school than have probably ever been assembled in the United States. Many of these are Americans by birth, most all have established international reputations at the very outset of their careers, and a large number has already enriched the literature of their instrument with many artistic arrangements and original compositions, thoroughly in keeping with modern musical thought and development.
5Prominent among these younger players is Eddy Brown, a violinist of extraordinary technical equipment, who has shown his skill as a writer through several excellent Concert Transcriptions on Paganini's Fourteenth and Twenty-second Caprices and a highly ingenious concert arrangement of Louis Victor Saar's Gavotte-Intermezzo.
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9Then there is Albert Spalding, acknowledged as a player of unusual power and individuality, who has just come to the front with a splendid Suite in four parts, (Prelude, Aria, Vivace and Fantasia) in which he demonstrates unusual creative ability and a refined sense of writing for his instrument.
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