Word: heifetz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shiny new violins and shabby old violins were tested by Acoustical Physicist Frederick Albert Saunders of Harvard, in collaboration with Virtuoso Jascha Heifetz. Their conclusion (announced last week at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Manhattan): A Stradivarius violin, when played slowly, is not superior in tone to the best modern instruments, but responds more quickly when difficult rapid passages are played-a result probably of aging, not of the makers' skill...
While irate Washingtonians formed a Marian Anderson's Citizens' Committee and held a mass meeting attended by 1,500, Violinist Jascha Heifetz, who arrived in Washington on a concert tour, said he was "ashamed" to appear in Constitution Hall under the circumstances...
...today's fine fiddlers the are brillinat Jascha Heifetz, mellow Fritz Kreisler, fastidious Joseph Szigeti.Connoisseurs, who judge by form rather than knockouts, have long rated Szigeti tops...
Using a harmonic analyser which gives a phonographic record of each sound, the scientists dissected 64 notes from the violins, played by Jascha Heifetz, world-famous musician. The artist sat in a special sound box and held each note for four or five seconds while vibrating pens wrote the delicate message on drums...
After keeping his eye on a red light which determined the length of each tone, Heifetz said, "most of the time it was too long. I hope it was all right...