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Tchaikovsky's Concerto in D by Violinist Mischa Elman and the London Symphony Orchestra under John Barbirolli (Victor, $10) - Elman's mellifluous tone marks this performance of the Concerto originally dedicated to Elman's teacher, the late great Leopold Auer, who rejected it because of its technical difficulties...
...months ago the passing of Professor Leopold Auer left vacant the title of "greatest teacher of the violin." The late great Hungarian? taught Efrem Zimbalist, Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz. Who would most worthily wear his plume? Last week in Manhattan the Juilliard Graduate School of Music appointed as his successor Louis Persinger, teacher of the contemporary child prodigies Yehudi Menuhin and Ruggiero Ricci...
...genius even where it does not exist. Like Auer, he employs simple methods, plays to his pupils a great deal, is at the same time careful not to stifle their individuality. Like Auer his dominant traits are sweetness and a gentle, kindly humor. Like Josef Hofmann, Albert Spalding, Mischa Elman, Alfred Hertz, Pablo Casals, Maria Jeritza and many another famed musician, he is a brilliant chess-player. In San Francisco he used to carry a little chessboard in his pocket. It was no unusual sight to see him take it out on a trolley car, set up a game...
...Veszprim, Hungary, he studied at Budapest, Vienna. Hanover. He married a Russian, Nadine Pelikan, was named professor at the Imperial Conservatory in Petrograd. His pupils persuaded him to go to New York in 1918, where he divorced his first wife, married a Mme Bogutska-Stein. His greatest pupils: Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz, Toscha Seidel, Efrem Zimbalist...
...Mischa Elman, violinist, sued Florenz Ziegfeld, producer, for release of the rights to publish Soldiers of Fortune, an operetta written by Elman in 1920 under a $100,000 contract with Mr. Ziegfeld...