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...cigar box and played by Kreisler when he was four. Son of a Viennese doctor, young Fritz entered the Vienna Conservatory at seven, the youngest child ever admitted. His career was interrupted by World War I, in which he was badly wounded while serving in the Austrian army, and again by the anti-German sentiment of wartime U.S. audiences. In 1941, he was struck by a truck in Manhattan. He recovered after days in a coma, but for a time forgot all modern languages and could speak only Latin and Greek. After 1950, Fritz Kreisler did not play publicly...
...rather than "international." and he himself is a prime example. Born in Kreminiecz, Russia, but taken to San Francisco by his parents before he was a year old, he studied with the San Francisco Symphony's Russian-born and trained Naum Blinder, later listened to recordings of the Austrian Fritz Kreisler and the Belgian Eugène Ysaÿe. What emerged from this combination of influences was a manner of playing that is best described as modified romantic-Slavic ardor and butter-smooth tone, under the taut discipline of a scholarly musical mind...
...some 200,000 Chinese died in combination earthquakes and landslides in Kansu province; in 1916, 6,000 Austrian and Italian troops were killed in an avalanche on the Austro-Italian frontier; in 1941, 5,000 Peruvians died at Huaras, 30 miles from Ranrahirca...
...Europe-eleven months of the year, will give more than 100 concerts this year alone. Although he is a superb performer of the German-Austrian repertoire, he is also a first-rate player of the moderns, for whom he changes the height of his adjustable piano bench-two inches higher for Prokofiev than for Beethoven-because he believes a high bench helps him produce some of the percussive effects of modern music. Little is left to chance. Everywhere he goes on tour, Browning carries a small black book-its pages crammed with the serial numbers of melodious pianos located...
...Taylor's view, it was always somebody else who put poor, passive Hitler in a mood to fight. "Provoked" by the Austrian Chancellor, Kurt von Schuschnigg. Hitler improvised the invasion of Austria almost overnight, as proved by the fact that 70% of the German transport broke down on the way. When Hitler ordered his generals to "smash" Czechoslovakia, it was merely a "momentary display of temper." The real culprits, Taylor implies, were the men foolhardy enough to stand up to Hitler. Poland's Foreign Minister Jozef Beck had such "great power arrogance" about his little nation that...