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...music managers is a thickset, moon-faced Russian who travels every year to Europe, observes more new talent, signs more big new conracts than any one man in his risky profession. Solomon ("Sol") Hurok has always had a weakness for Russian perormers. He has managed Efrem Zimbalst, Mischa Elman, Feodor Chaliapin, Anna Pavlova. He spent $75,000 to import the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934 et seq.). Last week in Manhattan Manager Hurok introduced still more Russians: 19 choristers from Paris who call themselves the Moscow Cathedral Choir...
When the Kreisler hoax became known, Mischa Elman was pompously indignant. Said he: "It is indeed a surprise that one who stands so high for all that is beautiful, pure and true in art as Kreisler should have resorted to such means. . . ." Other fiddlers showed greater comradeship. Yehudi Menuhin called it "one of the most creditable things that Kreisler has ever done." Albert Spalding was not surprised. Efrem Zimbalist had known, had gladly kept the secret all along. Said he: "The violin repertory has been wonderfully enriched by these compositions, and as Kreisler did not think it advisable...
...Smeterlin, Polish pianist, is to give a recital at Jordan Hall on Friday, February first; his program consists of selections from Schubert, Chopin, and Liszt. Mischa Elman, noted violinist, will give a recital at Symphony Hall on February seventeenth...
Violinists. Jascha Heifetz flew from St. Louis last week to keep engagements in Salt Lake City, Helena. Mont., Seattle, Eugene, Ore. Fritz Kreisler, now touring England, gave his 39 U. S. concerts early in the season. Efrem Zimbalist jumped from Florida to Canada last week. Mischa Elman was due to arrive from Europe. Sleek Albert Spalding was in New England. After 25 concerts Bronislaw Hubermann sailed to play in London but he will return in February for a General Motors' broadcast and an engagement with the Philadelphia orchestra. Yehudi Menuhin's dates cram sheets of paper. He played...
...close a concert in Rosario, Argentina, Violinist Mischa Elman played as an encore his own composition "Tango." Wildly the audience demanded to hear it again. Elman declined to repeat, played instead a dozen different encores. Exhausted, he bowed his way off the stage. Up over the footlights and into Elrnan's dressing room swarmed the insistent audience. Seizing the violinist, they dragged him back on the stage, pleaded until he repeated "Tango...