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Sometimes he held the violin between his knees, playing on it as on a cello; then he caught it to his breast again in a sudden fury of improvisation an arpeggio, light and running, his fingers barely touching the strings the snatch of a theme a trill, low and passionate the rush of a scale. He toyed with the Stradivarius mocking it, clasping it, listening.
"Hubert would not so misunderstand you the dear fellow is full of delicacy and I should dearly love to hear him play to your accompaniment; he used to enjoy those practices so much. Would you think him intrusive if he brought his 'cello some afternoon?" Hadria, not without an uneasy qualm, agreed to the suggestion, though by no means cordially.
Crisscrossing overhead were rows of Japanese lanterns. Old Cady Graves paced up and down playing his violin, as usual, and calling off for the quadrille, in his high pitched rhythmic cadence. But the biggest surprise of all came when Bryan Ormond, who had stirred the musical circles of two worlds, took his place on the little country platform and played for them on his 'cello. The Judge and Mrs.
A most original and commendable arrangement of three figures by W. L. Hollinger appears in “The Pose in Portraiture,” the members of a trio, violin, cello and piano. The pianist is designated by the suggestion of her action which is completed out of the picture. In her position however she accomplishes the balancing of two figures against one.
"When I think of a 'cello I seem as if I know exactly how it would feel to hold it between my knees, press my fingers up and down the yielding strings, and draw the bow across them. Helen if I had a 'cello here to-night, you would listen to sounds of such exquisite throbbing beauty, that you would forget everything in this world, my wife, excepting that I love you."
You know what is a 'cello? It's a large violin and stands up when you play it, so," and he took his own violin and placing it between his knees showed her how the 'cello was manipulated. "He sails on the steamship City of Berlin. He is coming here to make his fortune," and Von Barwig laughed at the idea of making a fortune at music in America. "How old is he?" asked Jenny.
Three Mexicans, with harp, violin, and 'cello had supplied the music: the everlasting national airs. It seemed to Harboro that the whole republic spent half its time within hearing of Sobre las Olas, and La Paloma, and La Golondrina.
He had suggested that it might amuse me to put it into a bassinet. Then when at last tea was over, he proposed, as the most delightful proceeding possible, that we should adjourn to the studio, and that I should sit and listen while he made a first attempt to play his 'cello which, by the way, he calls, the 'Infant of Prague, explaining to me that it is the nicest infant that ever was."
The elder brothers, Hugh, Tommy and B., would come home for the holidays from Sandhurst and Rugby, and R. would appear, and become almost one of the family. Then would occur troublous times, with a few advantages and many disadvantages. "Tommy" was a curiously solitary youth as I remember him, who played the 'cello with great perseverance and considerable success.
We are also going to revive Charles Martin Loeffler's Rhapsodies for viola, oboe and piano. "I have been for some time making a collection of sonatas a tre, two violins and 'cello delightful old things by Sammartini, Leclair, the Englishman Boyce, Friedemann Bach and others. This is material from which the amateur could derive real enjoyment and profit.
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