Word: elman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hates professional musicians "because professional musicians -professionals, not amateurs-hate music, and composers are even worse; they're a closed corporation." As for musical judgment: "I make fun of people who claim they can recognize music. They're phonies. I could play ten records by Kreisler, Heifetz, Elman, and no one could tell them apart." Humane Chicanery. Although he is sometimes billed as a musicologist, De Koven in fact has no degree from any college. Chicago-born, son of a doctor...
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Rhonda Fleming, Mischa Elman, Anna Moffo, Nicolai Gedda, Earl Wrightson and Benny Goodman and his orchestra sing and make music. Color...
...performance that called forth a classic exchange. Violinist Mischa Elman: "It's hot in here." Pianist Leopold Godowsky: "Not for pianists...
...house with her husband, lifted her skirt daintily above the snow and headed off for the festivities of inauguration eve. The first big event was the inaugural concert, held in Constitution Hall, unmarred for the Kennedys even by the fact that 60 out of 100 musicians, including Soloist Mischa Elman, had failed to make it through the snowstorm for the occasion...
...years almost to the day since Nathan Milstein made his New York debut. Now 55, he belongs to the tradition of such great Russian-Jewish violinists as Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist, all of whom were, like Milstein, trained by the late great Leopold Auer. In the generation that has passed since Milstein first appeared on the U.S. musical scene, he has transformed himself without fanfare from a dazzling virtuoso to a mature master, not only of bravura composers such as Max Bruch and Sarasate, but of Brahms, Beethoven and Bach. Little interested in contemporary music...