Jacques Gordon

Jacques Gordon. Photo Courtesy of Art Temple Quincy, IL" (1925). Charles Ringling Family Collection

Publicity photo of the Gordon String Quartet, 1936. NBC Artists Service photo

FOCUS

Music

ROLE

Guest

ATTENDANCE

1945 - 1945

BIRTH

1899-03-07

Odessa, Russia

DEATH

1948-09-15

Hartford, CT

Jacques Gordon was a violinist and concert musician. A college bulletin shared a blurb about his arrival,

"GORDON STRING QUARTET Jacques Gordon, First Violin, Walter Hagen, Second Violin, Kras Malno, Viola, Gabor Rejto, ‘Cello

Founded twenty years ago in New York by Jacques Gordon, then Concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In addition to long winter tours, it has given during the last ten years the famous concerts at Music Mountain Falls Village in Connecticut. Besides playing the classic repertoire it has given first performances of many works by contemporary composers."

A great biography was shared in the University of Rochester Library Bulletin in 1952, The Gordon Collection of String Music, Ruth Watanabe

The Gordon String Quartet in a series of six concerts
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