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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Guest soloist: Jascha Heifetz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...names on the program at Chicago's Ravinia Park were familiar enough; Chicagoans had heard Artur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky as brilliant, and highly individual, soloists. All summer, musical Chicago had been wondering what would happen when the three virtuosos got together in a trio for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Master Cooking | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Tight-lipped Fiddler Heifetz, voluble little Pianist Rubinstein and hulking Cellist Piatigorsky had been wondering the same thing. Said Piatigorsky: "If you have one man who is very meticulous and precise, one who is more general and one who is ... ah ... melancholy, you must work very hard until you all feel [the music] together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Master Cooking | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Said one listener: "I bought a straight pari-mutuel ticket: Heifetz to win, Piatigorsky to place and Rubinstein to show. I damn well lost. In music like this there could not be a winner or a loser." Said another: "You didn't know whether to shout or bow your head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Master Cooking | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...Charles S. ("Minnie") Guggenheimer of Monteux's reading of Beethoven's Fifth: "Simply magnificent! It wasn't at all like Beethoven!" The directors of Chicago's Ravinia Music Festival advertised a smooth combo to perform some trios by Schubert, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. The lineup: Jascha Heifetz, Artur Rubinstein, Gregor Piatigorsky. Northwestern University promised to lend its applause by conferring honorary degrees on all three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 8, 1949 | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

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