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...little bows. But his face was beaming. U. S. audiences had not behaved that way when he played Beethoven to them eight years ago. They had regarded him as cold, academic; his programs seemed too heavy. Back he went to his pupils in Berlin who revere him the way Elman and Heifetz revere the late great Leopold Auer.* Criticized for having no show pieces on his programs, Auer once remarked that he left all those to his pupils. Schnabel's pupils play all the modern music they like but Schnabel has stuck to Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven. Says...
...prominent musicians are capable of such teamwork, even for the sake of filling a hall in hard times. Mischa Elman's sweet, sentimental tones would scarcely blend very well with, for example, the fast-fingered playing of Vladimir Horowitz. It would be difficult to imagine cool, imperturbable Jascha Heifetz teaming with turbulent Ignace Jan Paderewski, or to picture grave Fritz Kreisler playing with elfin José Iturbi...
...hates nothing worse than being called a prodigy, says always: "It's not a question of how young I am." Mischa Elman played in a Lord Fauntleroy suit when he was 17. Menuhin demanded long pants this season, had them made by the tailor to the Italian Crown Prince. He demanded an automobile license, too, last spring, got it in California by taking a test on San Francisco's busy Market Street. That automobile license is his most treasured possession. It is the only thing he keeps in his pocket when he gives a recital...
Quivering with excitement such as he scarcely ever reveals on the concert platform, bald-headed Violinist Mischa Elman wrote a letter last month from St. Jean-de-Luz, France, to his father in Manhattan. Made public last week, the letter told how Violinist Elman had given a party for Cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin ''which will long linger in the memory of those who were there." Cinemactor Chaplin told Edward Prince of Wales "what a wonderful time he had at my house . . . The Prince, who came here for a vacation, and being evidently tired to be constantly with...
...exception was Mrs. Nicholas Longworth who, in 1924, confirmed to newsmen the rumored advent of her child. . . . When the wife of Mischa Elman was expectant in 1926, a San Francisco newspaper printed the famed violinist's photograph with the caption: FACES FATHERHOOD...