JAVS Spring 1989

About Violists

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1,486 Wurlitzer "Rare Violins ,

Violas, Violoncellos of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries of the Wurlitzer Collection," Special Binding embossed with the name of Nathan Posner 637 Seventeen separate volumes related to Violin Technique Fourteen volumes related to Violin Technique Seventeen volumes related to Violin Technique 679 Thirty Volumes relating to the Violin World, Biographies and books written by Violinists 637 Twenty-Nine Dictionaries

THE VIOLA TODAY, IN GREATER L.A. Is a violinist who plays Mozart's Sinfonia Concert ante with two different violists in less than a month, pro miscuous? Kathleen Lenski did it and in public, too; first on 8 October 1988 with Brian Dembow (that name keeps cropping up a lot lately) and the Orange County-based Mozart Camerata chamber Auditorium, and second, 12 November 1988, with Janet Lakatos and the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra, at the Wilshire- Ebell Theatre. Between the first part of October and the first part of March, no fewer than a dozen string quartets have given concerts in the Los Angeles area: the Talich Quartet (whose violist is named Jan Talich) and The Panocha Quartet, both from Czechoslovakia, a second-genera tion Fine Arts Quartet, (with Jerry Horner, violist) a Quartet from the Pacific Symphony, and one from the L.A. Philharmonic Chamber Music Society, the New World Quartet, the Emerson Quartet, to name a few. A cynic might say that the same 150 people are scuttling around town providing audience for all these groups, but it probably shows there is a thriving interest in the art of chamber music in Southern California. One of the more entertaining series is Chamber Music in Historic Sites, which presents concerts in different locations around the city. On November 13th, the Angeles Quartet , a new group, (Kathleen Lenski and Roger Wilkie, violinists, Brian Dembow, violist and Stephen Erdody, cello) played an Historic Sites concert in the Chandelier Room of the Turf Club at Santa Anita Race Track. It must have taken nerve, but they pro grammed Haydn's "Horseman" and Mozart's "Hunt." On 8 February 1989, on the same series, The Tokyo Quartet whose violist is Kazuhide Isomura, gave orchestra, at the seedy but great acoustics Santa Ana High School

and Volumes relating to the Lives of Violin Makers and their Techniques, their Instruments and reference Works related to the Violin Making Schools Twenty-One volumes relating generally to Violin History, trade and construction relating to Violin History, trade and construction Violin History, Trade and Construction Five Volumes on Fiction and General

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637 Twenty-Two volumes

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Four Monographs Twenty Catalogues 2,972 W.E. Hill & Sons Satinwood Violin Bow Case for six bows *These represent the highest prices ever paid for stringed instruments at an auction. Previously a "Lady Blunt" Strad ivarius violin from the same owner had garnered the highest price.

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