Serious music programming is an ongoing challenge. Creating programs that are inventive, interesting and have a chance to sell well is increasingly difficult, considering that contemporary audiences seem to be neither as culturally literate nor as intellectually curious as their counterparts from 50 years ago. How do we preserve the integrity of art music, and […]
Pilates and the Violin
FallA couple of years ago my wife slipped on the stairs outside our apartment. The resulting fall left her with a painful knee injury requiring months of rehabilitation. In addition to physical therapy the course of rehabilitation included Pilates, a targeted exercise routine developed early in the 20th century by Joseph Pilates, using highly specific […]
So You Want to be a Musician Part 1: Professional Values
WinterThere are gaps in the way many young musicians are educated today. On the one hand the cultivation of deeper issues of musicianship are often neglected. Instrumental teachers mostly fail to stress the need for students to base an interpretation of the music they work on, both intuitively and consciously, on the harmony, rhythm and […]
A Violin by George Gemunder With Original Bill of Sale
Fall
The Arensberg Gemunder violin, complete with receipt from the firm of George Kappel, Pittsburgh, June 2, 1890 is a rare example of unbroken provenance for a fine art object. We can presume that the 1890 sale of this Gemunder in Pittsburgh was the first retail sale of this violin with a label dated 1889. How […]
A History of the Arensberg Family Reminiscences of Charles Frederick Covert Arensberg (1879-1974)
Fall
Conrad Frederick Covert Arensberg purchased a handsome Gemunder violin in the summer of 1890. It still remains in the possession of his family. As the history that follows indicates, the Arensbergs may not be a “typical American family,” but their history parallels that of many of the immigrant families in America, past, present, and hopefully […]
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