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The Catgut Acoustical Society Library |
| File #: | K5450 |
| Name: | Kingman, Russell |
| Dates: | 1885-1959 |
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| General Information: |
| An industrialist, inventor, and former cellist with the American String Quartet who owned and played the |
| Stradivarius cello that had belonged to Emanuel Feuermann. He became interested in the violin work of |
| CMH and from time to time would call her to come to his home in Orange (the next town) to do some |
| minor adjusting and repairs to the cello, when he did not want to take the time to take it over to |
| Wurlitzers'. He was a friend of Pablo Casals and served as chairman of the finance committee of the |
| Casals Music Festival in Prades. He founded the New Jersey Symphony and was its Honorary |
| President; also President of the U.S. and International Lawn Tennis Associations, and an excellent |
| photographer, who travelled widely. After getting out of the hospital from a heart attack in 1956, the |
| first thing that Kingman did was to come to 112 Essex and take pictures of CMH at work on violins in |
| her kitchen where she worked at the time so she could keep track of her two children. |
| File Contents: |
| K5450 | -- | 101 |
| Correspondence: with CMH (1956-1959); Miscellaneous: NY Times obits, programs from Kingman's |
| photographic exhibits and NJ Symphony Orch concert program of 11/56. |
| Key Words: | Strad. cello (Feuermann). |