William Primrose at age 2 in Glasgow, seated in a chair with a book.
William Primrose at age 12 on the occasion of his first public concert
performing the Mendelssohn violin concerto at St. Andrews Hall, Glasgow,
1960. Seated holding a violin.
The old Guildhall School of Music, John Carpenter Street, London.
Eugene Ysäye, great Belgian violinist andteacher of William Primrose,
who influenced him toward the viola. Dedication to Primrose on the photo.
William Primrose at the home of Pierre Hel the well known French Luthier
in Lille 1927. Sitting: the two Hel Daughters, Ysaye and Madame Hel. Standing:
Pierre Hel, William Primrose, Madame Ysaye.
William Primrose at age 16.
Lionel Tertis, violist and first advocate of the viola as a solo instrument.
Festival Quartet at Aspen, Colorado. Syzmor Goldberg, violin; William
Primrose, viola; Nikolai Granden, cello; Victor Babin, piano.
The London String Quartet. Top to bottom: Warwick Evans, cello; John
Pennington, first violin; William Primrose, viola; Thomas Petre, second
violin.
The London String Quartet in Balparaiso, Chili, 1931. Gathered around
the radio.
William Primrose during his solo career in the early 1940's.
A publicity photo taken for RCA Records.
William Primrose in the garden of his Westport, Connecticut home playing
cricket.
A publicity photo taken for EMI Records.
William Primrose with his viola, 1954.
Caricature of William Primrose.
The Heifetz-Primrose-Piatigorsky Trio recording at RCA, Circa 1956,
Hollywood.
The Heifetz-Primrose-Piatigorsky Trio in concert in Los Angeles.
William Primrose during a radio interview, 1959.
William Primrose, and Franz Rupp at Aspen. Photo by Berko.
William Primrose in his studio at the Curtis Institute of Music, about
1945.
William Primrose, Hiroko Primrose, and Warwick Evans in Southern California,
1973.
William Primrose and Aaron Dalton, 1974.
William Primrose at the International Viola Congress, Eastman School
of Music.
Left to right: Francis Tursi, Lawrence Wheeler, unidentified, William Primrose.
William Primrose with the Deseret Quartet. Left to right: William Primrose,
Percy Kalt, Barbara Williams, David Dalton, R. Allan.
William Primrose playing on one of the approximately 70 violas on the
exhibit by comtemporary luthiers, sponsored by the American Viola Society,
1979.
William Primrose and David Dalton with Walk on the North Side
manuscript.
William Primrose, eminent master of the viola, poses with Dr. David
Dalton, his student and violist on the Brigham Young University faculty.
William Primrose at Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana, 1969.
