Word: heifetz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Music managers regard the cut in fees as a healthy sign. In the past artists have often spoiled all chances for profitable tours by demanding exorbitant fees. Few local managers could afford to present Basso Feodor Chaliapin or Violinist Jascha Heifetz three years ago. They drew big crowds but after fees of $4,000 and $5,000 were paid, the cost of the hall and advertising taken out, there was often little or nothing left for the manager. Heifetz and Chaliapin will play now for much less money, get more engagements...
...week he faced a supreme test-the Brahms Concerto with Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony. The Brahms is not showy music designed to demonstrate a fiddler's virtuosity.f Everyone knows now that Yehudi can play trills and double-stops with an assurance worthy of a Kreisler or a Heifetz. Brahms wrote music for grownups, music that is deeply contemplative and tender, faintly austere. People made frantic efforts to get tickets for the concert, not out of vulgar curiosity, but because they felt he could do it justice...
...José Iturbl goes to every concert with an apple and a clean collar. During intermission he eats the apple and changes his collar. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett wears a comical silver rabbit when he sings, Tenor Gigli a little gold bell his daughter once pinned on his pajamas. Violinist Jascha Heifetz hates to admit that he is superstitious about his ring with the Ceylon ruby but Soprano Lucrezia Bori is not one bit ashamed of the little gold key she wears pinned to her garter. She calls it her "key to happiness...
Zimbalist's playing is an almost ideal blend of emotion and intellect. Boxofficially he has been outdone by Kreisler and Heifetz, in one case by emotional appeal, in the other by technical facility. But Zimbalist's prestige has been slowly, steadily growing since he was 9 and playing first violin in his father's orchestra in the Cossack city of Rostov-on-Don. When he was 12 his mother took him to Petrograd to study with Leopold Auer. Until the time of Auer's death, Zimbalist, an acclaimed virtuoso, went to him for advice...
...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...