Word: heifetz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rozsa: Violin Concerto (Jascha Heifetz; Dallas Symphony conducted by Walter Hendl; Victor). Miklos Rozsa, best known as a movie composer (Spellbound, A Double Life), writes music that is recognizably Hungarian-after Bartok and Kodaly made the style familiar-and also, by some strange chemistry of the ear, Hollywoodian. Its message is easygoing, its orchestration competently conservative. The concerto was written for Heifetz, who helped out with parts of it, and who plays it as if he had written...
...artists could ignore a manager who had such inviting connections. The contracts that piled up in his combine's safes bore the signatures of such eminent names as Menuhin, Heifetz, Elman, Horowitz, Pons, Gigli. Eventually, his ever-spreading ventures were bitterly opposed by such musicians as Leopold Stokowski, who reportedly maneuvered Judson's resignation from the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1934, and by the U.S. Government itself, which won an antitrust suit against Columbia Artists and an affiliate last year...
...Department approves the exchange, Russia's Bolshoi Theater Ballet may open in Manhattan on New Year's eve, while Moscow on the same night gets a performance by either the New York City Ballet Company, Pianist Vladimir Horowitz, Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, Contralto Marian Anderson or Violinist Jascha Heifetz...
...impeccable and consistently compelling performance that we have come to expect of him. Violinist David Spencer, a Wesleyan junior, left much to be desired. His playing lacked tension, was matter-of-fact and on the surface, and at times harsh and out of tune. He is definitely no Heifetz or Hurwitz...
First Violinist Helmut Heller of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra was one of the many professionals in the crowd. Said he: "Igor Oistrakh is a virtuoso performer reminiscent of Heifetz. I have heard the boy several times, and it is clear to me that he has not reached his father's stage of development. The son plays largely from the subconscious; the father has succeeded in ennobling his art by playing consciously without sacrificing those qualities of the subconscious that enrich his playing...