Word: heifetz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago audience, a generally conservative one, did not demonstrably go for the Milhaud work; in fact, most of them did not go to hear it, but got it as a bonus with the star attraction, Jascha Heifetz and the Brahms Violin Concerto. But, in time to come, Milhaud's piece should win hearers on its own merit...
...competition is almost entirely made up of his countrymen, for most of today's great violinists are Russian (and, by an odd cultural phenomenon, Russian Jews). Their names: Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman, Nathan Milstein, Isaac Stern and (of Russian parents) Yehudi Menuhin. This week, for the first time, U.S. audiences had a chance to compare Oistrakh in person with the other violin masters. For, during Geneva's temporary thaw in the cold war, Moscow had decided to allow its most famous musical performer to come...
...never above 13%), and can keep most of whatever fees he charges for concerts abroad (upwards of $1,000 apiece). Recently, when a U.S. newsman asked him about his high style of living in the workers' state, Oistrakh said: "Great artists always live better. Doesn't Heifetz live better than...
...years, two agencies have divided a glutton's share of the nation's concert business between them. They are: Columbia Artists Management, Inc., among whose contract stars are Soprano Lily Pons, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, Violinist Jascha Heifetz; and National Concerts and Artists Corp., which books Violinist Nathan Milstein, Pianist Alexander Brailowsky, Baritone Robert Merrill, et al. The agencies' power lies in their subsidiaries-Columbia's Community Concerts, and National's Civic Concert Service-which between them have organized local civic associations in some 1,200 communities in 48 states. These groups act as local sponsors...
...soft spot in its heart for Russian musicians. Over the years it has made heroes of such men as Rachmaninoff, Horowitz, Heifetz and Stravinsky, and they in turn have made the U.S. their home. Today there is another generation of Russian virtuosos. The best of them, Violinist David Oistrakh, 47, and Pianist Emil Gilels, 38, have been sweeping through Europe in recent years, but no top Soviet artist has appeared in the U.S. since the end of World...