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...eight, Alfred asked for a bicycle, could find none with a coaster brake, so picked a shiny cello in Lyon & Healy's window. He became a prodigy, at 15 toured with Dancer Anna Pavlova, later played with the San Francisco and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, was first cellist of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under Toscanini for seven years...
France. Once closely associated were Pianist Alfred Cortot, Violinist Jacques Thibaud, Cellist Pablo Casals. Today thin, aging Pianist Cortot is a member of the Vichy State Council, ranks as guardian of France's musical tradition. Although in recent years he has conducted more than he has played, he still gives piano concerts. Violinist Thibaud, for a time heartbroken by the loss of a son in the war, now plays in Occupied and Unoccupied France. Cellist Casals, contrary to rumor, is not in concentration camp, although as a Catalan partisan of the Loyalists he is out of favor with...
This autumn the Philharmonic raided the Janssen Symphony, captured its first cellist and two of its Heifetzes. A program annotator and a lady sponsor, each connected with both orchestras, were told to make their choice. Conductor Janssen, sole backer of his orchestra, seemed unperturbed. His audience last week was near capacity (1,290). He had four more concerts scheduled (and four for children), with two newsworthy world premieres up his sleeve-new works by Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky...
Brahms: Double Concerto in A Minor (Jascha Heifetz, violinist, Emanuel Feuermann, cellist, with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy; Victor; 8 sides; $4.50). Bearded Brahms at his most robust; performance, perfect; recording, flawless...
Founder of the quartet and anchor man during its 26 years was hulking, virile Cellist C. Warwick Evans. He is now with the Pro Arte Quartet, which is attached to the University of Wisconsin (TIME, Jan. 27), has been playing in California this summer. The London quartet's last two violinists, tall John Pennington and deadpan Thomas W. Petre have been playing in cinema studio orchestras. Only dapper William Primrose had far to travel for the reunion-from Manhattan, where he is the NBC Symphony's crack viola player...