Word: elman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bernie, the O-O-Old Maestro," genial, plush-voiced veteran of stage, radio, screen; of a lung infection with heart complications ; in Beverly Hills. An East Side New York blacksmith's son, at 15 he gave a violin recital in Carnegie Hall, took up engineering after hearing Mischa Elman's debut.* In a Brauhaus he played his way through college, finally landed in vaudeville as "Ben, The Eccentric Violinist." In the early '20s he formed one of the country's leading dance bands (for a while his pianist was Oscar Levant). For years...
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...
...biggest single season's earnings: $500,000 (for 1922-23); 3) alltime record for a single concert: $33,000 (in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden). Only two other pianists, Rachmaninoff and Hofmann, have topped the million mark, and only five violinists: Kreisler, Heifetz, Elman, Menuhin, Zimbalist. All the rest are singers...
Sopranos Geraldine Farrar, Mary Garden, Grace Moore; Violinists Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz...
...this a running account was provided the radio audience by Hobby Lobby's master of ceremonies, Dave Elman. But the studio audience had more fun. After the show was off the air Hypnotist Klein told ten of the somnambulists they were 1) cold; they flailed with their arms; 2) plagued by mosquitoes; they slapped; 3) at the World Series; they rooted...