Word: heifetz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Concert artists, like dogs, always grow to resemble their patrons. Most of today's (examples: Gieseking, Casadesus, Heifetz, Serkin) resemble bank presidents or New Deal intellectuals. Most of yesterday's (examples: Paderewski, de Pachmann) resembled haughty princes of the blood. One lordly, athletic survivor of the time when artists wore the royal purple is orange-whiskered Polish Pianist Moriz Rosenthal, pupil of Franz Liszt, who in Manhattan last week was recovering from his 80th birthday celebration...
...Artur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz, Emanuel Feuermann; Victor; 8 sides). One of the most ingratiating of all chamber-music compositions, Schubert's Trio, in a previous recording by Cortot, Thibaud and Casals, was once a sensational bestseller, today is out of print. Victor's new version, with the latest, most scrupulous sound engineering, is one of the finest chamber-music recordings ever made. Rubinstein, Heifetz and Feuermann (each a famed concert soloist) play its lilting melodies with virtuoso finish and a subtle teamwork seldom heard when prima donnas of this caliber get together...
...biggest single season's earnings: $500,000 (for 1922-23); 3) alltime record for a single concert: $33,000 (in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden). Only two other pianists, Rachmaninoff and Hofmann, have topped the million mark, and only five violinists: Kreisler, Heifetz, Elman, Menuhin, Zimbalist. All the rest are singers...
Sopranos Geraldine Farrar, Mary Garden, Grace Moore; Violinists Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz...
...distinctly American phenomenon. To musicians, whose torch he has faithfully carried for twenty-two years with notable increases in wage scales and decreases in amateur competition, he is a popular and useful phenomenon. To musical artists, of whom he has said that there is "no difference between Heifetz playing the fiddle and a fiddler in a tavern," to the non-union Boston Symphony, to the moguls of canned music and juke boxes, and to the record buying public he is an obstinately unpleasant phenomenon...