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The violinist, 1903
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1Among the Players
3TERESINA TUA, the famous violiniste, now the wife of Count Guiseppe Franchi-Verney, of Rome, sends word that they expect to visit this country next September, when her husband will attend the International Press Congress, in St. Louis. Among women violinists none have held a more exalted position and the announcement that her violin would be heard would be greeted with applause.
5Robert Cuscaden, resident in Omaha, a pupil of Anton Witek, concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, and himself a member of the same organization for eighteen months, sends in the program of his second recital, given January 20, which included Brahms' Sonata in A, Op. 100, the Bruch G minor concerto and Polonaise de Concert, Op. 4, by Wieniawski, a fine program.
7Dr. Chas. Baetens, a pupil of DeBeriot and one time member of the Joachim quartet, is still active in the teaching profession at Omaha. The degree of musical doctor was conferred by Oxford. For years he resided in England, then came to this country and taught at the Cincinnati College of Music, playing at the same time with Thomas.
9Maud MacCarthy is making a marked success of this, her first American tour. At Brooklyn, on the 22nd, she played Beethoven's C minor sonata, Op. 30, No. 2, Saint-Saens B minor concerto and Airs Russes by Wieniawski. The latter two solos and Nardini's beautiful Larghetto were played by Miss MacCarthy at Pittsburg on the 9th.
11Cecil Burleigh played at the Illinois Teachers' Association meeting in Springfield, held during the holidays. His numbers were Bazzini's Prayer from concerto, Op. 42, and "Ronde des Lutins." He is a pupil of L. E. Hersey, of Bloomington.
13Wenzel Kopta, a violinist from the Conservatory of Prague, gave two concerts in San Francisco the last week in January, playing Paganini's concerto, Laub's Polonaise, Tartini's Le Trill du Diable and Ernst's Hungarian Airs.
15Francesca Bendeke's recital at Minneapolis on the 16th drew a large audience to hear this talented young lady in Wieniawski's D minor concerto, a Grieg sonata, Op. 8, and Saent-Saens' B minor concerto.
17Francis McMillen, the Thomson pupil who won the prize at Brussels last June is to play in Berlin, Ostend and London, arriving home in time for a tour of this country next year.
19Fritz Kreisler is to give three concerts in London before Easter. London musicians consider him the greatest violinist of the day, even if he did tour America before going to the world metropolis.
21L. Lichtenberg, violinist, Leo Schulz, cellist, and Adele Margulies, pianist, played the Brahms B major trio at a New York concert on the 21st. The Rubinstein violin sonata was also played.
23Sam Franko's symphony orchestra played its second program of old music in New York on the 27th. The composers represented were Gluck, Bach, Monsigny and Mozart.
25Ole Theobaldi, the Swedish violinist, gave a concert at our Scandinavian metropolis, Minneapolis, Jan. 21, playing many of Ole Bull's favorites.
27Rosenbecker's Chicago Symphony Orchestra will go to Montreal, Quebec, Hamilton, Toronto and London, Canada, after the Chicago concerts.
29Claude Madden, violinist of St. Paul, and composer of a Russian Lullaby (Schirmer), fell and broke a leg, it is said, on a slippery sidewalk.
31Guy G. Callow, a violinist of Pontiac, Mich., has returned to Europe, this time going to Prague, to study with Sevcik for two years.
33Kocian chose the Joachim Hungarian Concerto for his New York concert on the 1st of February at the Metropolitan Opera House.
35M. Adamowski played the Prize Song, Wagner, and a paraphrase on Paderewski's "Manru" at a Waldorf-Astoria concert, Jan. 16.
37Elsa Rueggar, the young Belgian cellist, played Victor Herbert's concerto in E minor before the Pittsburg Orchestra Jan. 16.
39From an English Musical Journal
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