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With two exceptions,* all of today's first-rank violinists are Jews. A good percentage of them are also Russians. And practically all of the Russians (Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist, etc.) are onetime pupils of crotchety, bearded, Hungarian-Jewish Leopold Auer,† who went to St. Petersburg in 1868 to teach at Czar Alexander II's Imperial Conservatory of Music...
...Before Auer went there, great Russian violinists were scarcer than caviar on a peasant's table. By the time he left Europe, in 1919, to spend his declining years at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, he had made the term "Russian violinist" as much a commonplace as "Italian tenor." Critics sometimes complained that Auer's Russians sacrificed elegance and emotion for pyrotechnics and schmalz. But it had to be admitted that nobody could touch Auer for teaching luscious tone quality, machinelike fleetness and accuracy of fingerwork...
Jascha Heifetz has long been widely regarded as the greatest Auer pupil. He has long been closely trailed, in the opinion of most critics, by dark, solemn, boyish-looking Nathan Milstein, 38. So self-effacing and publicity-shy is Nathan Milstein that, despite 13 years of U.S. touring, few people except violin enthusiasts know who he is. Last week, after a crowded recital in Carnegie Hall, critics as usual gave him the highest salutes...
After being greeted by compatriot professors J. A. C. Fagginger Auer, Bart J. Bok, and J. Anton de Haas, Queen Wilhelmina left Massachusetts Hall, and proceeded slowly around the Yard. As the procession moved around the north end of the Yard, men of the Naval Training School, who were drawn up in hollow square formation, came to attention, facing her car as it passed...
Professor Auer laid great emphasis on the fundamental causes of the war. "We tend to oversimplify these causes," he said, "by propagandist exaggerations. We condemn, for example, the invariable wrong of the Axis peoples, and place on the other side the exact opposite on the part of our allies...