Word: elman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mischa, Elman, the violinist, playing in Symphony Hall Sunday afternoon, selected a program which was a severe test of his powers. It contained not only the usual sonata and concerto--in this case Handel's Sonata in D major and the Vieuxtemps Concerto No. 5 in A minor--but also a Chaconne of Bach and a Suite by Korngold, incidental music to "Much Ado About Nothing". This latter occupied much of the place usually given to the "nugae canores" which were therefore reduced to two, a Nocturne of Chopin and Jota by Sarasate...
...however, until he was well into the second movement of the Sonata that Elman fully warmed to his work. As a result the first movement seemed hurried, blurred; but the third was ample recompense. Rarely has this Larghetto been so exquisitely played. Under Elman's bow the tone was of ethereal clarity...
...what good reason should Harvard enter the controversy on the merits of Mr. Kreisler--a controversy extending from Worcester to Louisville and points farther West? We are not called upon to take Mr. Kreisler's case before American public opinion. And if a violinist is needed, there are Elman, Haifetz, Jacques Thibaud, who served in the French army, and our own Albert Spalding, who served overseas in the army of the United States...