The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-01-17
TRIO OF NOTED
ARTISTS COMING
UNUSUAL EXCELLENT MUSICAL
ATTRACTION OFFERED BY
THE WoMAN'S CLUB.
AMONG THE GREATEST
Musicians in the World Are Those
Who viii Appear Here On
Wednesday. Jan. 29--in-
ciudes Neice of Cairoite.

~iNdCS iNCtSC VI SdffOite.
What will undoubtedly be the most
incted musical treat ever offered Cairo
| will be the appearance here on We'd
tuesday Jan. 20 Of the Skoygaard
| Concert company, under the auspices
q the Cairo Woman's club, The com,
ipany consists Of three musicians OF
national and international fame and
4 iiclrles Miss i.cis Davidson a neice
NV lillian Fl. Davidson Of this city.
4 Ecsilles Miss Davidson there are
/ iarr Skovgaarl and Miss Elonora OF,
on in the company.
Mss Davidson was fer five years a
lnafil of that we'll known pianist and
Inrsical critic Walter Perkins and
/ at r took d six years course with
/ VII lam H. Sherwood. A number Of
fars ago Miss Davidson While only
2 Years Ct age appeared before a
Cairo audience and her work was Of
Hch a high character that it made
Dc iediy favorable and lasting i'm
ressiau upon her hearers.
Miss Olson's mezzo soprano voice
fs fhrilled audiences all over the
IN"rld she having strdied FOR years
Viii |cadiag European m&sters. ~
sfcygaarl tie DaHish violin yir.
tucso, frst, came to this country to
ACCEPT the position Of concert meis
ter with the New York Syl4phonv
orchestra snder Waiter Damrosch. 1t
Nis now his pleasure howeFeieto engage
in a more notable personal career as
soloist at the head OF his own com
l9ny.
SSorgaard was a faYorite pupil of
Joachim, the worlds greatest violin
teacher. He studied previously for
many years with Carr Hair and En-.
manuel Wirth. He began the stmly
OF the violin at tae age of four.
toured the Scandinavian peninsula
az a. child.wcnder at the aee OF nine
was concert meister with the Phil |
harmonics tf Copenhagen at fifteen;
toured England Germany and France |
as solost with the Muniugef Hof. |
KaDele of Meiningen at nineteen. and |
q little later visited the capitals cf |
Europe IS soloist with Sending. DIAL /
bert julius Roetgen and other noted
artists
Mtsic is a passion with Sbovgaard.
Gifted with poetic temperament
mad intellectual le:scnality he pos
aeyses the rare gifts Of depth of com
lrehespion and deIicacy Of coloring.
With such master pieces os the
Brahms Concerto, tle Beethoven
Nreutzer Sonota and Mendelssohns
Concerto, he has -on distinction Of
the highest order
Skovgaardss violin was made BIZ
Antonius Stradivarius. The varnish
b as bright aad pa:isned as II ap-
,lied b ythe hams Of its skillful max
~ but Yesterday and yet it IS one of
he Oldest, as welt as the most ex.
'ensive yioiins in existence
StradiVarius, who made the violin |
n l7l2 in memory of his deeecsed
'on. retained il until his death but ,
never put strings on IL. His sens. II
francesca a1d OmoOono. later sold A.,
he violin 10 Luigi Tarisie. a dealer s
yho sold IT to a Spanish museum 1
where it remained :or generations ,
n 1897 the violin was Rescued. un q
ARMED from the museum. which was
destroyed by fire and plared i'm the =
lands Ct a London dealer. from /,
'hom. after tedious negutiations. II
ir. Skovgaard Purchased the instru-
nent for Si30i0.00. He is there r
ere the only person who has PLAYED q
II this wonderful violin. II IS the
elisman beyond value which has
Toueht his PLAYING to its present
iandard. This ins;rament is the best
reserved specimen Ct stradivarius'
IT.