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The violinist, 1903
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1she played the Ernst Hungarian Airs without a single tonal lapse. Her program included also the Mendelssohn and Paganini concertos. Rather a pretentious program for a twelve- or thirteen-year-old miss, but not one bit beyond her, unless it be in musical comprehension.
3Arnold Krauss, the well-known Los Angeles violinist, has been visiting his confreres in San Francisco.
5The first half of the Scheel Sympony concerts has ended and the magnetic leader will now turn his attention to the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra season. The second half of the San Francisco concerts will be given in the spring, when Scheel's eastern engagements close.
7Herr Otto Spahmer announces a violin recital.
9The Philharmonic Orchestra has a new conductor in the person of Oscar Weill, a fearless critic and able musician. A number of the Philharmonickers have withdrawn and attached themselves to the cause of their former leader, Mr. Minetti. These, with a number of recruits, constitute the Minetti Orchestra.
11Miss Mary A. Baldwin, a highly talented violinist from Riverside, Southern California, has just travelled the six hundred miles from her home in the Southland to San Francisco, for the purpose of continuing her studies with Harding M. Kennedy.
13Mr. Alex. Stewart's violin class gave an enjoyable recital recently in the Unitarian Church, Oakland. They performed a Moto Perpetuo of Carl Bohm brilliantly and did excellent work in a Haydn symphony.
15THEO. SCHMIDT.
17Miss Beatrice Hyke, of Luverne, Minn., a talented pupil of E. J. Hopfner, played at her first recital Viotti's Concerto No. 29, Alard's Faust Fantasie, DeBeriot's Concerto No. 1 and Wieniawski's Fantasie.
19At the Wennerberg memorial concert to be given in Minneapolis November 27, William Wrigley, the popular young violinist, has been engaged as one of the soloists
21Students' Department
22Conducted by Oscar Bush
24A Valuable Book
26A BOOK containing many valuable facts for violin repairers—and therefore of interest to the collector and player of stringed instruments in general—is a little work by Horace Petherick entitled "The Repairing and Restoration of Violins." This book has just reached me from the Strad office, 3 Green Terrace, London. Though it is brimful of valuable suggestions, the wording is abominable, a little the worst I have seen in print. Why any English publisher will allow such a manuscript to reach the press is a mystery; possibly we in this country are more particular in the use of the language than are the king's subjects.
28But while Mr. Petherick has not mastered the language, he must be given credit for knowing a great deal about violin repairing, and to the reader of his book this is the main thing after all. And there are many illustrations, which tell more than all the words in the dictionary. In the eighteen chapters are hints on closing up cracks in the upper plate, replacing bass bars, filling in wide openings, joining the neck, use of new wood in old instruments, opening a violin, treatment of warped plates, matching the wood, inclination of the finger board, repairing broken peg boxes, refilling worn peg holes, restoring the purfling, filling worm holes, replacing end blocks, lining thin backs, preserving original labels, varnishing new parts, damages caused by the bridge, and half a dozen other topics. Illustrations and directions are also given for grafting new necks on old scrolls according to the old method or the modern methods, also the secret, "blind graft." So, in spite of the style, or lack of style, in composition, Mr. Petherick has written a book that no violinist or repairer can pass over without interest. It is dated this year, 1903.
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